Increasing Equitable Access to Data Science Education for K-12 Students (feat. Zarek Drozda)

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“You hear a lot about the metaphor ‘data is the new oil’ and I think data really is the new oil – maybe it’s even the new fabric for the way that we all interact with each other in the world…”

Hey Everyone, and welcome to the final episode of Season 4. In this episode, we’re speaking with Zarek Drozda, the director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a coalition created by the University of Chicago Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change, aimed at increasing equitable access to data science education for K-12 students. Today, he shares how the coalition is assisting high school educators in bringing data science to their schools, some of the national initiatives going on that are bringing data science to K-12, and how to get involved.

“Technology is a moving target, so I always push people towards thinking about how we can focus on the fundamentals and the fundamentals on how data is shifting society in really big ways.”