Hadi PartoviVerified account

We agree just putting CS in schools isn't enough to deliver diversity. It takes a village, and a holistic approach.

Our classrooms are 45% women, 48% students of color because of so many efforts combining and collaborating.

FYI 9M is counting registered accounts (Half just past school year alone). Tens millions more have tried http://Code.org .

However, most of that is K-8. We can all work together on bridge to high school, where the numbers drop. And federal funding will help

Well...here's the reason why the #s drop in high school which ALL of those afterschool orgs serving girls or students of color know

The participation of girls in #STEM topics falls off a cliff after middle school. The body of research is fairly dense in this area.

Adding curriculum in schools focused on coding will not alleviate this reality. But I think afterschool programs such as BGC, Technovation,

Girls Who Code, CodeNow, Techbridge, Hidden Genius and others fill this gap well where schools still fail these students.