About
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), designated by the U.S. House of Representatives as the week of Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday, recognizes the transformative role of computing and the need to bolster computer science at all educational levels. ACM and its partners will promote CSEdWeek in order to:
- Raise awareness of the critical role of computing for our global information society
- Promote efforts to expose students – particularly in grades K-12 – to robust computer science education
- Highlight the challenges facing computer science education
- Engage supporters to prepare students with the knowledge and skills they need for the 21st century
This web site:
- Serves as the interactive and central resource hub for CSEdWeek
- Contains computer science education resources
- Provides a social platform to share ideas and celebrate CSEdWeek at the national and local levels
- Draws attention to the need for an educational system that values computer science within the national STEM framework
About Grace Murray Hopper
The first full week in December was chosen for CSEdWeek in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, one of the outstanding pioneers in the field of computer science, who was born on December 9, 1906. She engineered new programming languages and pioneered standards for computer systems which laid the foundation for many advances in computer science from the late 1940’s through the 1970s. In 1971, ACM established the annual Grace Murray Hopper Award for Outstanding Young Computer Professional to recognize contributions made by computer professionals who were 35 years of age or less, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution.
