Who are we?

Our Goal

CS for All Washington is an advocacy group that has a single goal:

Ensure every student in Washington state has joyful, empowering, equitable, and identity-inclusive experiences learning about computing, no matter their race, gender, ability, class, or citizenship.

our Strategy

We try to achieve this through two strategies:

Organize information about CS education at all levels — K-12, higher education, camps, clubs, bootcamps and more — helping everyone involved in these efforts see how we are connected, find opportunities to connect and collaborate, and prevent siloing and redundancy.
Organizing people in the state working in CS education at all levels, to prevent isolation, find community, and facilitate coordination of broader efforts.

Our activities

Our current activities involve four things:

This website. The purpose of the site is to curate semi-stable information about activities in the state, so that everyone in the state has a fresh overview of what's happening. This is key to helping newcomers in our community and state quickly understand what's happening.
Our Slack. The purpose of the Slack is to coordinate. Volunteers need to collaborate on projects, coordinate meetups, or have conversions about current events. The Slack is where we do it. Our vision is to have everyone in Washington state connected to CS education in any way to be there, if they want to interact.
Monthly gatherings. See our connect page for time and dates.
Special projects. These include everything from building coalitions around legislation, informing OSPI's interpretation of policy, helping connect groups around the state, and more.

Our community

We are led by volunteer advocates. You can see our current leadership team, along with details about how we operate, on our operations site. You can also see every community advocate who has shared their information publicly.

our Support

We are not a business, school, not-for-profit, or a government organization. Rather, we are a community of stakeholders that connects all of these things, across silos. That means that you can help, if you can spare an hour a week. Check out the volunteer page for ways to help!

We do not take funding from state government or from industry. We occasionally write small grants to the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP), a National Science Foundation-funded alliance of 23 state teams and the territory of Puerto Rico that is working to increase the number and diversity of students in computing and K-16 computing education pathways through advocacy and policy reform efforts. ECEP connects us to teams and communities in other states, sharing best practices, so that we can do our community organizing better.