Hello,
TL;DR — fill out https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/helenem/179736 to volunteer with K-12 students!
Our K-12 outreach program, DawgBytes, reached over 120 teachers and 1,000 students during last academic year. We offered classroom presentations, summer camps, programming competitions, teacher workshops and more. All of this was possible thanks to the involvement of over 40 undergraduate and graduate students — check it out: http://cs.washington.edu/dawgbytes
This year, we’d like to do even more and we need your help! We’re involved in outreach because as many of you know all too well, computer science is a subject that many students discover late and don’t understand well. This affects the diversity of our field as a whole and results in disappointed college seniors who discover they love CS but feel like they can’t switch majors so late in the game. We want to address this by making sure as many K-12 students as possible understand what CS is and know a bit about our department. In the next couple of months, we have several classroom visits, a programming competition and a computer science open house planned. Will you help us make them happen?
Please fill out this quick survey if you might be interested in volunteering at any time during the year:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/helenem/179736.
I look forward to working with many of you soon!
Best,
Hélène Martin
Lecturer, Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington