The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced a partnership with Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to growing K-12 computer science education in America, to bring computing skills to elementary and high school students across the US.
The partnership is aimed at ensuring that every K-12 student in the nation has the opportunity to study computer science as a rigorous discipline that includes some serious exposure to programming, systems, languages, and computer architecture. As part of this alliance, Cameron Wilson, ACM Director of Public Policy, was named Chief Operating Officer of Code.org on an interim basis.
In addition to the ACM partnership with Code.org, the non-partisan advocacy coalition Computing in the Core (CinC) will merge with Code.org. CinC was founded by ACM in 2010, with support from several other partners including the Computer Science Teachers Association, Microsoft, Google, and the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). The joint organisation will assume responsibility for organising the annual national Computer Science Education Week, held this year December 8-14. CSEdWeek was first launched by ACM in 2009 and has been held each year since.
