The LEGACY Project kicks off! Teachers ready and students eager to start! LEGACY provides a year-long preparatory experience for African American girls enrolled in College Board AP CS Principles. Thanks U.S. National Science Foundation ! Trisha Powell Crain ECEP Code.org CSforALL news.eng.ua.edu/2019/05/legacy…

LEGACY students (summer prep for #APCSP) off to amazing start! Many future computer scientists in our 1st cohort! Photos at: bit.ly/legacy-2019-ph… Project website: legacy.ua.edu Ruthe Farmer Black Girls Code CSforALL ECEP Code.org Girls Who Code A+ College Ready CSTA Alabama

LEGACY students (College Board prep for #APCSP for African American girls from Alabama) group photo in front of Shelby Hall at The University of Alabama. Thanks U.S. National Science Foundation ITEST! Richard Shelby Governor Kay Ivey @AlabamaDeptofEd legacy.ua.edu

The LEGACY scholars were excited to participate in a virtual panel with national K-12 CS leaders Chinma Uche Kawa Nini Kim Lane Clark, Ed.S! Chinma, Deborah and Kim shared their experiences in industry and academia as women of color and helped answer several student questions.

An extraordinary week with the LEGACY program. Here is a video we made to cheer on LEGACY year 1! youtu.be/ia-65ph22yI

Among the many lies out there now there is one saying I told people with AIDS not to take their medicine - repeated even by supposedly reputable sources. Please read this and share with others. It is by someone who was actually there. medium.com/@davidkessler_…

Extraordinary and sustained efforts on the part of tens of thousands of educators have created this reality. A true success story and so much more is needed. thejournal.com/articles/2019/…

Happy birthday to the late Sister Mary Keller, who helped develop #Basic & in 1965 was the first woman to earn a PhD in computer science in the US: bit.ly/2M5v8LQ (mentalfloss photo: Wikimedia)

UPDATE: We’ve received 935 new positive #COVID19 test results since yesterday, bringing our total to 2,844. This increase is not a surprise – as we begin a more rigorous collection statewide, we’re getting a clearer and better sense of how far coronavirus has already spread.

We will beat this virus and we will emerge from this fight stronger than ever because we're #JerseyStrong.

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We kick off today! Key partners are Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) AMSTI A+ College Ready TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY And special thanks to Kathy Haynie from Haynie Research and Evaluation - this project would not have happened without Kathy's expertise in education evaluation and research.

I’m proud to appoint Dr. Barbara Cooper as secretary of Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education! Dr. Cooper has spent her professional career dedicated to helping students achieve their greatest potential. I have no doubt that she’ll cont. the impressive work of this dept. governor.alabama.gov/newsroom/2020/… #alpolitics

PACS (Pathways for Alabama Computer Science) is in its final week with 65 teachers training on ECS Exploring CS and Bootstrap Bootstrap! PACS is a $3.9M project from Fed. Dept. of Ed. Partners: Alabama State Department of Education The University of Alabama A+ College Ready TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY Kathy Haynie CSTA Alabama

Kicking off Bootstrap in Alabama with Emmanuel Schanzer, Kathi Fisler and the Bootstrap Algebra team! So excited to finally get Bootstrap in Alabama classrooms to integrate computer science into Algebra. CSTA Alabama A+ College Ready Alabama State Department of Education Styslinger College of Engineering

Glass frog podcast on STEM, CS, gender, and a bit about me. Enjoy! glassfrog.us/s3e3/

Our paper on providing a year-long preparatory experience to Black Females for AP CSP will be presented today at #SIGCSE2021 (1pm Eastern) in the Gender session. SIGCSE Technical Symposium CSTA Alabama ECEP A+ College Ready AMSTI Video: cdn.filestackcontent.com/FJr4vjTiQLmRou… Paper: doi.org/10.1145/340887…

June 26, 2021 - Regions Field (Birmingham, AL) Birmingham Barons vs Pensacola Alex's stadium debut (90 second time limit on the anthem, so not so shreddy). And Barons win 5-3

This will be a very special show! eventbrite.com/e/celtic-meets…

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