Recently met with education leaders in Scotland, U.A.E., and Israel on #DataScience #DataLiteracy education. Strong interest and investment in making these skills universal in other countries. The U.S. needs to catch up. Much thanks to Yardstick Education DataEducationInSchools for invites!

DS4E is still hiring!

super excited to have been a guest on the CodeCombat podcast talking about games, data, and education! thanks so much for having me :D check it out here! - codecombat.com/podcast/data-s…

Listen to our former colleague and current NYU MFA candidate jd 📸📽️👁️ discuss data science in education and Algo-Rhythm on CodeCombat! Data Science 4 Everyone (DS4E)

From a tabletop game about the Black Plague to an interactive game that uses music to introduce kids to the world of data science, our guest, jd 📸📽️👁️, discusses how #gamedesign and #datascience can influence educational experiences. 🔊codecombat.com/podcast/data-s…

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Hear from our director Zarek Drozda in the last episode of the UC Berkeley CDSS podcast for 2022! Zarek highlights how DS4E supports HS teachers & aims to increase access to data science ed. Tune in during your holiday travels 🎧 datascienceeducation.substack.com/p/increasing-e…

as often discussed when people have no other conversation topics to remark upon, chicago is brutally cold in the winter. you can help someone pay their gas bill this winter so they can keep the heat on! communityutility.org/offer

Thrilled to announce we’re launching a new Market Shaping Accelerator The University of Chicago led by Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, and Christopher Snyder (Dartmouth 🌲). Also with Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change, Energy Policy Institute at UChicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics and others...🧵

Hear from our friend & coalition member, jd 📸📽️👁️, on a recent episode of the CodeCombat podcast! JD discusses how game design and data science intertwine and can influence educational experiences. Listen now 🎧 codecombat.com/podcast/data-s…

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Community Utility was launched as a way to do mutual aid utility assistance. We're grateful to everyone who has trusted us, both those who have asked for help and those who have paid bills! And the community orgs that shared their time and insight! (1/6) communityutility.org

As 🌈Karishma ✨ told Block Club, "Utility bills can have a huge impact on people’s livelihoods and stress levels as they try just to make it through the day.” We've seen this in the stories and bills shared with us. You can help right now! (6/6) communityutility.org/offer

We hope you are all enjoying your holiday break with family & friends. If you have downtime, consider working on your submission for the DS+ Collaboration Challenge (you can win prizes just for submitting!) datascience4everyone.org/dscollabchalle…

Less than one week away ➡️ Mark your calendars for the launch of the DS+ Collaboration Challenge! Get ready to connect with teachers across school subjects to collaborate & create data science lesson plans. Learn more: datascience4everyone.org/dscollabchalle…

To start the year off, we are excited to spotlight our grantees - starting with Data Science 4 Everyone (DS4E). We've been working with DS4E to raise the profile of data literacy as a critical ingredient in creating engaged citizens, career-ready graduates, and solution-oriented communities

We talked to Rebecca Leber is now at @rebleber.bsky.social from Vox for this article about the rising costs of energy bills this winter! It's a huge issue that impacts millions of households every year. vox.com/science-and-he…

Learn about innovative college mathematics programs and how high school courses transfer in the university setting at our upcoming roundtable discussion on 2/8. Register here ⤵️ eventbrite.com/e/innovating-m…

📣RISC ALUMNI ALERT📣 It's Karishma's last day! We'll miss you! We are beyond proud of all of our incredible alumni 🎓: —🌈Karishma ✨ —Eric Gilliam —Atakan Baltaci —jd 📸📽️👁️ —April Feng —Tristan Wagner —Harrison Satcher —Ankita Ghoshal —🦋 —Naz Gocek —Julia Thomsen —Daphne Martschenko, PhD

16 states have managed to introduce #DataScience basics to K-12 students without issue, yet a controversy erupted in CA with their math framework. I wrote to FORTUNE why I think the 3-year debate over math seemed to miss the forest for the trees: fortune.com/2023/10/13/fre…