Nearly 650 high school students from over 15 schools across the Bay Area will converge at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on Friday, March 10th to explore the fun world of Computer Science (CS) at the TEALS Bay Area CS Fair!
Students will have the opportunity to hear about what a career in CS looks like from representatives from a number of Silicon Valley technology companies. This list includes companies such as Microsoft, Google and Twitter coming together to help bring high school students to the next step in their CS journey. The event will host representatives from over 25 organizations including a number of colleges such as Carnegie Mellon University, UC Berkeley, Skyline Community College and Stanford. Students will be able to attend presentations and interactive workshops put together by Code Day, LinkedIn and Microsoft’s Garage.
This is the first CS fair of this form in the Bay Area. Students can learn about drone technology, what goes into the development of games such as Plants vs. Zombies and FIFA and explore Virtual Reality demos. Students will dive deeper into understanding a CS college major and a CS career, first-hand, from current college students and technology professionals.
The Bay Area CS Fair is hosted by TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools), a grassroots, industry-wide program that partners with high schools to help build and grow sustainable CS programs and build CS teacher capacity by integrating professional software engineers into the classroom to team teach with a classroom teacher. Within 2 years, committed partner schools can independently sustain CS courses based on UC Berkeley and University of Washington curricula. TEALS volunteers and partner teachers create a ripple effect, impacting the students they teach, and the many students who will study computer science in the future. TEALS currently works with 25 schools in the Bay Area with over a 100 volunteers placed at these schools. The program expects to grow to over 40 schools next year, with over 150 volunteers placed at these schools.
