THE JOB/STUDENT GAP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

THE JOB/STUDENT GAP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

2%

98%

Computer Programming Students

All other math and science

students

40%

60%

Computer Programming Jobs

All other math and science

jobs

Sources: College Board, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Science Foundation

1,000,000 MORE JOBS THAN STUDENTS BY 2020

Sources: BLS, NSF, Bay Area Council Economic Institute

400,000 computer science graduates

1,000,000 unfilled programming jobs

$500 billion opportunity

FEWER CS MAJORS NOW THAN 10 YEARS AGO

Sources: National Science Foundation

• 67% of “software” jobs are outside the tech industry – in banking, retail, government, entertainment, etc

• We need our future doctors, lawyers, politicians, astronauts learning the basics.

THIS ISN’T JUST ABOUT TECH COMPANIES

2012 HIGH SCHOOL A.P. ENROLLMENT

Sources: College Board

Exposure to CS leads to the best-paying jobs in

the world. But it’s only available in

5% of high schools

Exposure to CS leads to the best-paying jobs in

the world. But it’s only available in

5% of high schools

Only 4% of this tiny box are African Americans, or

Hispanics

Only 4% of this tiny box are African Americans, or

Hispanics

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer……because it teaches you how to think.

Steve Jobs

It would be wonderful if every kid wrote computer programs and understood how computers work. It would certainly make you a better thinker.

Bill Gates

In fifteen years we’ll be teaching programming just like reading and writing. We’ll be looking back and wondering why we didn’t do it sooner.

Mark Zuckerberg

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense…

Marc Andreessen

OUR STATE LAWS MAKE IT HARDER

In 35 of 50 states, computer science doesn’t count towards graduation requirements.*

Sources: ACM, College Board*in China, it’s required to graduate

CODE.ORG – CHANGING THE DISCUSSION

A SINGLE VIDEO CAN HAVE AN IMPACT

• #1 video on YouTube for a day. (Over 20,000,000 views)

• More than 3,500,000 students tried learning online

• More than 725,000 signed petitions (with ZIPs) and growing

• Over 10,000 schools want help setting up coding classes or clubs

• More than 25,000 software engineers already volunteered to help teach/mentor.

• CS enrollment in high schools that promoted the video tripled !!!

STRUCK A CHORD WITH MILLIONS

OUR NEXT BIG GOAL

An Hour of Code

for every student in America

• Code.org building self-guided, online learning tutorials– Different levels, different

devices• Leading game companies

providing content to increase engagement

• Also working with other providers

DELIVERING THE LEARNING

• Presenting directly to teachers• Working at state and district

levels• Promoting through National

PTA and Donors Choose• Database of 25K+ volunteers

who have signed up to help in schools

DELIVERING THE SCHOOLS

• Engaging tech, entertainment, and media companies to help:– Promote (e.g., Link from Google home page)– Incent (e.g., Surface tablets donated by Microsoft)– Recruit (e.g., Promote to internal employees)

• Engaging celebrities to help:– Kick off Hour of Code at a local school– Be featured in next video(s) learning to code– Tweet/Blog/Share (esp. something they coded!)

DELIVERING THE STUDENTS

• Encourage students to continue with 20-30 hour class– With significant incentives from industry

partners• Enlist parents & influencers with advocacy

materials– Help advance our policy causes

AND BEYOND….

• Help us recruit schools/orgs to participate• Promote Hour of Code during the week• Help kick off Hour of Code in a local school• Host an Hour of Code in your own organization• Provide prizes as rewards for

students/teachers/schools• License artwork/graphics for use in curriculum• Donate to Code.org

HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE