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 a collaborative grant with Richard Ladner at the University of Washington. Our goal is to increase the number of students with disabilities that participate in computer science in K-12, targeting high school. This work funds the Quorum project and the creation of a series of new technologies in that infrastructure. As part of this grant, we collaborated with code.org to make their curriculum accessible.

This was a supplement to an existing NSF grant to hire additional help. For this particular supplement, I requested an extension of the amount of time my staff member, William Allee, can be hired on the grant. Second, I requested more travel funding and support to hire professional teachers to help with curriculum development efforts.

This is a grant to the STEM + C program that is designed to teach astronomy and computer science to young students. Notably, this includes funding to create technologies that allow astronomy to be made accessible to the blind or visually impaired. There are a multitude of partners on this grant throughout the United States. The lead investigator is Tim Spuck (AUI).

This is a grant submitted for a dear colleague letter from the NSF on vibro-tactile displays. The broad idea looks at how such displays are perceived by humans and how to use this information to make it easier for blind or visually impaired individuals to understand complex information (e.g., graphs, visual simulations). It is being done in collaboration with Jenna Gorlewicz (St. Louis University), Derrick Smith (University of Alabama, Huntsville), and Nick Giuduce (University of Maine).

This is a collaborative grant with Richard Ladner at the University of Washington. As part of this grant, we worked with a series of partners to make their tools and curriculum more accessible. Technologies included accessible 3D gaming, enhancements to the Quorum compiler, and more.

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.