“Computer Science is a liberal art: it’s something that
everybody should be exposed to and everyone should
have a mastery of to some extent.”
— Steve Jobs
The Hour of Code is a movement around the world to help every student have the opportunity to learn about computer science. Code.org provides lesson guidelines for the Hour of Code/Computer Science Education Week.
Computer Science Education Statistics
According to Computer Science Education Week, there are almost 2,000 open computing jobs in Oklahoma, but we only had 411 computer science graduates. 71% of new STEM jobs are in computing and 8% of STEM graduates are in Computer Science.
According to Code.org, there are 1,319 teacher accounts and 54,798 student accounts across Oklahoma.
Let's start teaching computer science to not only engage students but also allow them to have an employable skill upon graduation.
Hour of Code Cohort
All OKCPS teachers are invited to participate in our cohort which has a culminating activity of create and Hour of Code project in your classroom or on your campus. Check out THIS flyer for more information. The three sessions will be Unplugged Coding, Code.org and new this year, Scratch.
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