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Dan Garcia

Teaching Professor @ University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Dan Garcia is a Teaching Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. Selected as an ACM Distinguished Educator in 2012 and ACM ACM Distinguished Speaker in 2019, he has won all four of the department's computer science teaching awards and is a national leader in the "CSforALL" movement, bringing engaging computer science to students normally underrepresented in the field. Thanks to four National Science Foundation grants, the "Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)" non-majors course he co-developed has been shared with over 1,000 high school teachers! He is delighted to regularly have more than 50% female enrollment in BJC, with a high mark of 63% in the Spring of 2018, shattering the record at UC Berkeley for an intro computing course, and is among the highest in the nation! He is humbled by the national exposure he and the course have received in the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, NPR's All Things Considered, USA Today, and the front pages of the San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle.

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What's Possible and The Future

Frank Bäuerle and 3 other authors