Raised in San Antonio, TX, Serene Gallegos saw how kids from wealthier neighborhoods got access to better education. This inspired her to become a teacher. Now, she spearheads a program designed to teach kids computational thinking, with a focus on diversity and under-represented communities.
A former teacher, Serene Gallegos leads the Ignite My Future in School initiative, an educational program designed to help instill computational thinking in American students and expand STEM skills within their curriculums. In her role, Gallegos partners with school districts across the country to bring free, high-quality professional development in computational thinking to teachers.
For example, this past school year, a group of IMFIS Learning Leaders selected the Resilient Cities lesson plan to help students discover how environmental infrastructure projects go from idea to action. Students were tasked with becoming urban designers who had to plan an effective and workable green enhancement to their local community. Seventh-grade science students in Wisconsin tackled a local manufacturing plant that had been abandoned.
When she left the classroom, Gallegos went in search of how to make a different kind of impact on students and teachers. She joined a non-profit that taught entrepreneurship to middle and high school students, where she developed programs and provided in-person teacher coaching. Eventually, she became interested in fundraising initiatives and strategic partnerships that support bringing computer science to life for students, and therefore got involved with IMFIS.
. The future of work and our economy are changing at rapid speeds. We need a workforce that’s prepared to address major issues around health, planet, education, and more. Students have to be digitally fluent and understand technology and computational thinking in order to solve these issues. I feel responsible for helping ensure that students of color, girls, and students from all areas of the country are given a chance to acquire these skills.
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