AccessCSforAll PIs Win 2018 Champions for Computer Science Awards
This month, PI Richard Ladner and the , led by AccessCSforAll PI Andreas Stefik, both received from the Computer Science Teachers' Association And Code.org.聽 The awards were presented by Melinda Gates on December 3 as part of a Computer Science Education Week (CSEd Week) kickoff program held at the 糖心原创.聽聽Melinda Gates described the award as a 鈥渓ifetime achievement award鈥 with a different name, so as not to imply it is the end of their work.聽 During CSEd Week, the NSF also promoted AccessCSforAll's work in .
As noted on the CSEd Week website,聽 "While many organizations and programs have sought to make computer science available to all students, often it was through pathways and tools that were fundamentally inaccessible for students with disabilities." Richard and Stefik's work aims to change this.
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