Meet Our Sponsors
Improving computing science education is an essential aspect of ensuring that our citizens acquire the knowledge and skills that they need to succeed in an increasingly technological world, and that our industries and businesses have access to workers who can continue to push the boundaries of innovation and productivity. A partnership of both educational and business interests is therefore critical to ensuring that the educational changes we promote are effective, appropriate, and wide-reaching.
As the only national level professional educational organization focusing on excellence in K-12 computer science education, CSTA provides multi-level opportunities to partner in ground-breaking initiatives that contribute directly to classroom results. By supporting CSTA, you are:
* Helping to create new real-world focused learning resources for teachers and students
* Helping to ensure that teachers have the knowledge and the skills they require.
* Helping to ensure that students understand the wide variety of opportunities for careers in computer science and the educational pathways required to achieve their goals.
CSTA provides three levels of sponsorship opportunities for business and industry partners who understand the importance of computer science as an academic discipline and as a contributor to our social and economic well-being.
IBM's primary social commitment is education. We know that no business can be successful
without a strong community, and no community can be successful if it lacks an educated
population. IBM is proud to be a founding member of ACM and to be working with CSTA on a new
project that will develop new computer science curricula for high schools students. Our primary
philanthropic program is Reinventing Education, a $75 million grant initiative supporting global
school reform efforts. Launched in 1994, Reinventing Education encompasses 25 school districts
and states in the U.S. and 10 countries throughout the world. IBM also supports education
through a range of other programs, including the IBM KidSmart Early Learning Program, which
integrates interactive teaching and learning activities using the latest technology into the
pre-kindergarten curricula; TryScience, a collaboration of the New York Hall of Science, IBM,
and the Association of Science-Technology Centers, which provides students with access to the
best museums around the globe, as well as hands-on projects that children, parents, and teachers
can do at home or in school; and IBM MentorPlace, through which IBM employees around the world
provide students with online academic assistance and career counseling, while letting them know
that adults do care about their issues and concerns.
IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives/grant/education/
Microsoft offers several programs and resources for high school technical faculty and their
students. We offer affordable access to world-class professional software tools for both the
classroom and students' home computers through the MSDN Academic Alliance membership. Through
Mainfunction, our portal for high
school faculty we offer training, curriculum, projects, activities and support for using .NET
in the classroom. When students have questions that you can't answer or if they're looking
for activities to keep their active minds occupied you can point them to theSpoke, our student
community site or The Imagine Cup, our premier student competition.
https://www.mainfunction.com/Home/default.aspx
Sun Microsystems Education and Research has created academic programs bundled in one portfolio
bringing value add to the entire Education IT community. Sun's main objective of this proposition
is to capture the mind-share among academic communities and helping faculty, staff and students
to become proficient with Sun and Sun related technologies. New technologies are driving dramatic
changes in education. Digital libraries, e-learning, virtual classrooms, and multimedia have the
capacity to convey voice, data and video to almost any location. Sun is committed to helping
educators use and adapt these technologies through our Strategic Programs, which create business
partnerships with Primary and Secondary (K-12) and Higher Education institutions.
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/star.html
