Code.org is an advocacy campaign focused at getting more kids interested in computer science. It's also working to get more states, schools, and teachers on board with the program.
Editor's Pick Will Harbin says he extinguished a "micro culture" that had exhibited embarrassing and offensive conduct in the wake of a contractor's claims that he was subjected to racial discrimination.
Guest Post SMASH provides full funding for high-achieving, low-income high school students of color to spend time at California's top universities for five weeks during the summers after their 9th, 10th, and 11th grade years.
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Jeremy Lin is the talk of the NBA. Sportswriters everywhere are busy cranking out column inches on what people have called the ultimate Cinderella story: The emergence of an Asian-American Harvard graduate, seemingly from nowhere, as one of the NBA’s …
The shopworn adage “It takes all kinds of people to make a world” is never more controversial than when applied to technology startups.
“It takes all kinds of people to make a product” is much less accepted; diversity often gets …
The U.S. tech industry has a race problem.
Anyone who’s worked in Silicon Valley for any length of time will have noticed the alarmingly large number of white guys occupying positions of power. There are good-sized groups of Asian entrepreneurs …
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All technologists work in the same environment, but we experience the workplace in very different ways.
We like to think of the tech sector as a colorblind, gender-blind meritocracy; unfortunately, this simply isn’t an accurate picture.
Women in tech often …
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Even if women and men were graduating in equal numbers from technology and engineering degree programs, the technology industry would still favor men.
According to a new report from the Level Playing Field Institute, IT workplaces, including tech startups, can …
