As part of my work, I was honored in 2016 as a White House Champion of Change. This is a video created by Amy Poehler's smart girls for the event. This event was part of the push in the united states toward Computer Science For All. You can read more about this here:

• Champions of Change
• Helping America Code: A Day with Computer Science Champions of Change

This is the third major grant to the Access CS For All team making computer science more accessible to people with disabilities. It is a collaborative grant between the University of Washington and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In this version, we are creating an online accessible block editor for high-school and working with pre-service and in-service programs for computer science.

The purpose of this grant is to create an open-source online data science utility and to investigate the challenges in doing data science online for all people, including those with disabilities. Many people experience anxiety in statistics or data science and our hope is to reduce this through reasonable and inclusive interface design that is accessible to all. This is a collaborative grant with St. Louis University and the University of Maine.

This grant is designed to investigate and create open source offline data science learning tools for secondary students. Statistics has traditionally been esoteric and the goal with this work is to try and make it more intuitive, in addition to making it accessible to students with disabilities at the high-school level. This is a collaborative grant with St. Louis University and the University of Maine.

This is the second major grant to the Access CS For All team making computer science more accessible to people with disabilities. It is a collaborative grant between the University of Washington and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In this second grant, we focused on making the College Board's AP Computer Science Principles course accessible to students with disabilities. As part of it, we investigated how the course is designed, collaborated with code.org to develop alternative versions of the course, and worked with teachers in the blind, deaf, and learning disabilities communities. All content was made open source.

In this grant, we explored math and data analysis through the use of tactile displays, especially vibration capabilities and its limitations. Ultimately, we found that we can use laser doppler vibrometers to very accurately measure the capabilities of vibration systems, which we applied to generate guidelines for how vibration can be used in touch based systems.

In the IDATA grant, we explored how to integrate computer science content and astronomy to make it accessible to specifically blind or visually impaired students using robotic telescopes. We found there remains significant barriers to astronomy for people that lack vision, but that many of these barriers are solvable. Students need better ways to code astronomy content accessibly and better ways to do accessible graphics online. This grant also led to the open-source website for the Quorum programming language and much of its online content.

This was the first major grant to the Access CS For All team making computer science more accessible to people with disabilities. It was a collaborative grant between the University of Washington and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In this version, we focused on creating accessible content for Exploring Computer Science, in addition to working with partners to explore what needs to be done across the field to make computer science more accessible. It was a pre-cursor in the sense that it gave us time to figure out what needs to be accessible and possible approaches for getting there.

The purpose of this grant was to create the Quorum programming language and to start a national infrastructure for blind or visually impaired students to participate in computer science. As part of it, I completed the following activities: 1) created and implemented the Quorum programming language, 2) started the national infrastructure I proposed, and 3) wrote a variety of publications on aspects of the project, which ultimately led to the awards I am winning today. The work started in this grant has persisted long past the initial funding, for more than a decade.