Summary
Educate Maine, in collaboration with the Institute for Advancing Computing Education, will explore and plan resources to prepare and support core curriculum teachers integrating computer science and computational thinking (CS/CT) into their courses. Integration of CS/CT into required core disciplines (such as social studies, English language arts (ELA), math and science) holds great promise for fostering more participation and interest in CS and for increasing the general CS/CT skills and interest in the workforce. Integration is an especially important strategy in rural schools which often c