Computer Science For All, A Love Story With Data

Why don’t school reform programs always achieve on their promises? How can youth-led user experience research help out?

Chicago Public Schools have an exciting opportunity–to make Chicago the first large, urban district with universal computer science education access. But the trick is in implementation. High levels of turnover and time crunches make it tricky to deliver high-quality programs. Moreover, students don’t always have a way to share what they are interested in.

This Fall, Mikva Challenge and Mumkin Studio brought four Chicago Public High School students to Chi Hack Night to design, implement, and evaluate user experience for the Chi Hack Night project Edumap, a tool for finding computer science curriculum to assist with Chicago Public Schools Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative.

Mikva Civic Tech Interns Pedro Garcia, Daniel Kolade, Marshall Nakamura and Jessica De Jesus share their experience and findings.