Code.org: Introducing new offerings for elementary teachers through CS Fundamentals Deep Dive workshops
The shortage of Computer Science (CS) teachers in the United State is a real problem in increasing student CS participation. Teachers often lack the experience,... Read More
Computer Science in California Schools: An Analysis of Access, Enrollment and Equity
The CS for CA Coalition, lead by the Kapor Center, released its CS for CA report this summer. The report provides an overview of the... Read More
Development and Implementation of a Hands-on Surgical Pipeline Program for Low-Income High School Students
For the last 3 summers, Stanford Medicine has partnered with SMASH Stanford to deliver a hands-on surgical pipeline program focused on getting more underrepresented and... Read More
Walter Robinson: Leader, Role Model, Change Agent at UC Davis and beyond.
Walter Robinson, who was the head of Undergraduate Admissions and the office of Enrollment Management at UC Davis, and an instrumental leader in building a... Read More
SMASH STEM Program Launching in Illinois in Partnership with Illinois Tech, SIU Carbondale and CPASS Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 24, 2019 Contact: Kim Bardakian, 510.499.5723, kim@kaporcenter.org First State-Wide Program Model for Free World-Class STEM Program for Students from Underrepresented Communities... Read More
SMASH: A National Program Tackling Local Problems
For the past 15 years, our SMASH Academy has been on the cutting edge of research-based STEM programming for underrepresented high school students. While we started out... Read More
Wake Up With WURD – LaToya Tufts
LaToya Tufts is the SMASH Wharton Site Director. She joins Wake Up With WURD to talk about the partnership that SMASH has with the Wharton... Read More
Google officially opens new office in Detroit
Tech company grows presence, commitment to Motor City, Michigan; commemorates occasion with $1 million in grants to increase access to STEM education opportunities for underrepresented,... Read More
Women of Color in Tech Exist & Belong — We Sent 50+ SMASH Alumnae to Grace Hopper to Prove It.
At a Philadelphia computer corporation lab in 1953, someone told Grace Hopper, “No.” Hopper, a Navy veteran who wrote the manual for the first U.S. electromechanical... Read More
Houston conference empowers women of color in STEM fields
Late’jah Whittaker has always loved science. She started making robots in the fourth grade. In the fifth grade, she attended her first computer science-based program,... Read More