by Todd Bishop, GeekWire
Microsoft employee Kevin Wang is a rare person in the computer science industry. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, then studied education at Harvard and became a teacher in the Bay Area, building and teaching a computer science curriculum for grades 7 through 12. In 2009, that background led him to found TEALS, which stands for Technology Education And Literacy in Schools. The unique program turns computer science vets into part-time volunteer teachers, working with existing faculty to teach CS in high schools — many of which otherwise wouldn’t be teaching the subject, at least not in a meaningful way. Kevin Wang was a computer science teacher at Woodside Priory School in the Bay Area before he joined Microsoft. “There’s just a huge black hole in computer science,” says Wang, a 32-year-old resident of Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, describing the issue as critical to the country’s long-term competitiveness.
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