The Benefits of a Diverse Education

• You don’t need to be a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist to appreciate an English class…

• …nor a world-renowned scientist or mathematician to understand the wonders of our world.

• We believe that understanding computational thinking also offers skills useful for your future.

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Software is Everywhere

• Think of some of the things that entertain and enrich your daily life

• All of the above are driven by software• Software developers equipped with a computer science degree

have opportunities to work on exciting and cutting-edge projects

Software is Everywhere• 98% of all microprocessors control devices other than desktop computers– Automobiles, airplanes, televisions, copiers, razors…

• These devices also need software and often require strong technical skills to develop

Meteoric Opportunities

February 15, 2005: Domain registered (youtube.com)

Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve ChenAround 25 years old at this time

December 2005:Official Debut

3 Billion Clips viewed daily Average viewer spends15 minutes per day 48 hours of video uploaded each minute October 2006: Time Magazine Invention of the Year

October 6, 2006: Google purchased for $1.65B

Alabama Technology Leaders

Jimmy WalesWikipedia FounderHuntsville Native

• The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. • Since its creation in 2001, nearly 24 million articles in over 285 languages.• 470M monthly visitors; 77k active contributors.

Women IT Leaders

Marissa Mayer • Employee #20 at Google• Current President and CEO of Yahoo!• Net worth: Over $300M• Top-15 in Forbes’ Most Powerful Women

Sheryl Sandberg • Current COO of Facebook• Net worth: Over $1B• Board of Directors, Walt Disney • Top-5 in Forbes’ Most Powerful Women

“… the software industry is going to make more breakthroughs in these next 10 years than it's made in the last 30 … software is really going to transform not just what we think about as the computer industry, but the way that everything is done …”

Intellectual Opportunities

Re-architecting the Internet

Harnessing parallelism

Quantum computing

Transforming all fieldsof science and engineering

Wrecklessdriving

Prosthetics / augmentation /

access

Transforming the nation’s defense

The Demand for Computer Scientists

The Demand for Computer ScientistsSoftware development positions are expected to grow by 32% over the next 10 years, much faster than the average for all other occupations. Below are the top 8 career choices for highest growth/highest salary with a Bachelors degree.

Source: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm/

Over the next 10 years, a projected 822,000 new jobs will be available in Computer Science occupation areas in the United States alone.

The Demand for Computer ScientistsA new Georgetown University report finds that of the 1.9 million job openings posted online, “application software developer is the most in-demand occupation overall” with 125,000 jobs.

Where the STEM Jobs Will BeProjected Annual Growth of NEWLY CREATED STEM Job Openings 2010-2020

* STEM is defined here to include non-medical occupations.

Source: Jobs data are calculated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Employment Projections 2010-2020, available at http://www.bls.gov/emp/.

* Subtotals do not equal 9.2 million due to rounding.

Source: Jobs data are calculated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Employment Projections 2010-2020, available at http://www.bls.gov/emp/. STEM is defined here to include non-medical occupations.

Where the STEM Jobs Will BeDegrees vs. Jobs Annually

Sources: Degree data are calculated from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Science and Engineering Indicators 2012, available at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/appendix.htm. Annual jobs data are calculated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Employment Projections 2010-2020, available at http://www.bls.gov/emp/. STEM is defined here to include non-medical degrees and occupations.

Where the STEM Jobs Will BeTop 10 STEM Occupations by Total Employment in 2020

Source: Jobs data are calculated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Employment Projections 2010-2020, available at http://www.bls.gov/emp/. STEM is defined here to include non-medical occupations.

The Demand for Computer Scientists

• National Job Outlook– According to the National Association of

Colleges and Employers (NACE)• $64,800 is the average starting salary for

computer science degrees in the class of 2013 (among highest starting salaries); 3.9% increase over 2010 offers

• Computer Science tops list of best major for jobs with the highest number of job offers per major (2.8 job offers per CS undergrad)

The Potential for Alabama• Per capita, Huntsville is

one of the top five cities in the US with concentration of software developers, and #4 in overall STEM workers.

• Cummings Research Park is the second largest in the United States and the fourth largest in the World.

Huntsville

The Potential for Alabama

• Comparison of Projected Computing Jobs & Computer Science Degrees Earned

http://www.ncwit.org/caucus.php?id=AL&d=0

Myth of Computer Science• According to the Alabama Learning Exchange

(ALEX)1, computing is equated to learning Microsoft Word and various mechanical tasks; this is not Computer Science!

1 http://alex.state.al.us/standardAll.php?grade=9&subject=TC2&summary=2 2 http://techland.time.com/2012/07/16/can-we-fix-computer-science-education-in-america/

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• Number of schools passing AP CS audit

Computer Science in Alabama

State Number of Schools

Alabama Less than 8(out of > 460)

Tennessee 16

South Carolina 18

North Carolina 28

Florida 69

Georgia 78

New Jersey 133

California 165

Texas 271

• Number of students taking AP CS exams

Comparison with Neighbors to the East

State 2001 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Georgia 461 CS A     422 CS A    

585 CS A 583 CS A 692 CS A 884 CS A 1037 CS A 1260

114 CS AB 107 CS AB 105 CS AB 160 CS AB

Alabama 27 CS A     27 CS A     41 CS A 24 CS A 51 CS A 99 CS A 97 CS A 126 CS A

15 CS AB 7 CS AB 11 CS AB 22 CS AB

• Alabama population, ages 15-18: 220k

• Over 5200 students took AP US History

• Nearly 120 took the AP Latin exam

K-12 Outreach at UA CSMentoring for Science Fair Competitions Summer Camps

• Mentoring throughout academic year; students treated like a PhD student with office space• In 2010, three students named ISEF finalists; another in 2013

Field Trips and School Visits

•Summer: Java, robots, Android!•Summer: Teacher workshops•Summer: Middle school camps•Taught by UA Faculty

http://outreach.cs.ua.edu/camps

• 3-hour field trips to UA CS Department (pizza lunch!)

• Visits to your school; robotics and game programming talks

Alabama Robotics Contest

• 3-hour field trips contest; solve 3 challenge problems

• Open to all grades in K-12; statewide

• Open platform• Focus on

programming

http://outreach.cs.ua.edu/robotics-contest/

High School Outreach at UA CSGoogle-Sponsored CS4HS Teacher PD

• Teachers from Alabama and 7 other states meet in Tuscaloosa for training in new teaching techniques and platforms (e.g., smartphone programming)

New NSF CE21 Grant/College Board Pilot

• Training for middle/high school teachers on robotics programming; robots loaned to teachers for classroom use

• Training for middle school teachers on Alice game programming

• A $1M grant to provide detailed PD to 50 high school teachers

• The goal is to sustain and scale the offering of a new College Board AP exam that we are helping to pilot

• In collaboration with A+ College Ready

Robotics Training in Classroom

• A new NSF grant provides an opportunity for UA undergraduates to help with new robotics courses in middle/high schools

UA Factoids• Founded in 1831, UA is the state’s first university• UA is ranked among the top 50 public universities in the

nation for the tenth consecutive year in U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings, fall 2012.

• The University of Alabama ranks first among public universities nationwide in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars for 2012-2013 with 241 scholars in the fall 2012 freshman class. The ranking also places UA fourth among all universities (public and private).

• For the eight-year period from 2007 to 2014, UA ranks second in the United States for the number of students named Goldwater Scholars. UA is tied with Arizona State University with 21 scholars during that period and just one behind Harvard University, which had 22 scholars. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one behind UA and ASU with 20.