Stop the Decline: Why Computer Science Needs More Diversity | Kelly Brandon | TEDxAvenuesWorldSchool

Kelly Deckelman Brandon is a Creative Computation teacher in grades 6-12 at Avenues: The World School, NYC. Prior to teaching, Kelly was a software developer at the Naval Research Laboratory. She is committed to bringing computer science education to all students. Her talk is about the necessity for inclusion in the world of computer science, and how she is personally working to make a difference. Kelly Deckelman Brandon is a Creative
Computation teacher in grades 6-12 at
Avenues: The World School, NYC. She
is committed to bringing computer science education to
all students. During the summer she coaches elementary
and middle school teachers to integrate CS within
existing classroom content as a part of both the STEM
Institute and the Computer Science Department at the
University of Notre Dame. Prior to teaching, Kelly was a
software developer at the Naval Research Laboratory.
She has an M.A.T from Johns Hopkins University and a
B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Notre

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Truly inspiring, I just wanted you to know, that I am a girl and just started learning computer science in school, despite the fact I am 1 of 4 girls who study it in my school, the number has increased from last year. Showing how fundamental and fun Computer science is to the new generation of students, needs to be our new objective.

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People should do what feels natural for them. Envy is a person circuit in the human brain - a whole TED talk about it here. Sad