Did you know that you can have your city’s Mayor proclaim a day to celebrate computer science education?
This is exactly what CSTA Board member Brian Scarbeau did! And the city of Orlando, FL Mayor Buddy Dyer proudly proclaimed December 7th as Computer Science Education Celebration Day.
Brian picked December 7th in honor of the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper, in this way celebrating both the contribution of computer science education to the modern world and the contribution of women to computer science.
According to Brian, it is very easy to have a day proclaimed. You simply go to:
sws.lhps.org/computerscienceed
and scroll down to Download a Proclamation link and print that out and send it to your Mayor at least two months before the event to give them time to sign it and send it back to you.
Chris Stephenson
CSTA Executive Director