| Referenced | Technology Education and Literacy in Schools |
| Referenced | Connecting Classrooms To STEM Careers |
| Start Date | 2018-00-00 |
| Notes | TEALS Expanding High Schoolers’ Access to Computer Science Ensuring students are getting access to CS learning is vital to meeting current and future demand. A group of teachers and tech industry volunteers are taking the matter into their own hands by teaming up with TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) to provide high school students exposure to CS. TEALS was founded in 2009 by a former CS teacher and software engineer Kevin Wang, with the support of Microsoft Philanthropies.14 The program provides high schoolers with beginner friendly and college equivalent courses that consist of 15 minutes of lecture and 35 minutes of hand-on learning. The program is currently offered across 29 states in 342 high schools.15 Giving students the ability to think outside the box and solve problems at a young age piques their curiosity and aspiration to be innovators of the future. |