Volunteers Needed in West Seattle to Help Teach Computer Science

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Seattle-area high schools are seeking volunteers with computer science industry experience to help them build a sustainable computer science program. Volunteers will team-teach with classroom teachers as part of TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools), a volunteer movement supported by Microsoft to bring computer science education to every high school.

More than 475 TEALS volunteers across the nation are currently team-teaching Computer Science 101 and AP Computer Science in more than 130 schools. The program is expanding this coming school year to Chief Sealth and West Seattle, and help is needed to meet the growing interest in computer science among local high school students.

Each volunteer works with a partner classroom teacher and interacts directly with students. In addition to their role as instructors, volunteers share their personal career stories with students, inspiring them about the broad range of opportunities in the computer science field. To find out more about how to volunteer with TEALS, go to http://www.tealsk12.org/volunteers/informational/.

Applications will be accepted at http://www.tealsk12.org/apply/ until May 1, 2015.

“Many things we interact with on a daily basis are powered by computer science, but the vast majority of high schools students don’t have access to this exciting field of study because only ten percent of U.S. high schools teach it today,” said Kevin Wang, founder of TEALS and program manager at Microsoft. “As engineers and programmers across the tech industry we have an opportunity to help more kids learn computer science – school by school – by volunteering with TEALS and making a real difference in each student’s life, now and in the future.”

TEALS is part of the Microsoft YouthSpark initiative that is providing education, entrepreneurship and employment opportunities to young people around the world.

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