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About Us

We are an interdisciplinary research group of computer scientists, educators, and developers at UC Santa Barbara.  Our team brings together faculty and graduate students from both the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Education.  Together, we use our discipline knowledge and research practices to develop computer science curriculum and interfaces for elementary school students.

We are developing a curriculum for 4th-6th grade students to learn computational thinking.  We use this curriculum as a vehicle for studying the deeper question of how young students learn computational thinking, as well as how well our curriculum teaches it.

This project is supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant #1240985. Additional support provided by the University of California-Santa Barbara.
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Project Directors

Diana Franklin
PhD, Computer Science
franklin@cs.ucsb.edu
Danielle Harlow
PhD, Science Education
dharlow@education.ucsb.edu

Research Associate

Hilary A. Dwyer
PhD, Education
hdwyer@eucation.ucsb.edu

Graduate Students

Charlotte Hill
Computer Science
charlottehill@cs.ucsb.edu
Johan Henkens
Computer Science
jhenkens@cs.ucsb.edu
Ashley Iveland
Science Education
aockey@education.ucsb.edu 
Alexandria Killian
STEM Education
akillian@education.ucsb.edu 

Undergraduate Students

James Cheng-yuan Hong
Sharon Levy
Timothy Martinez
Iris-Eleni Moridis
Logan Ortega
Kenyon Prater
Jenny So
John Thomason
Rick Waltman