mission
Changing Expectations provides STEM, tech, digital skills, and workforce development programs to prepare Black and Hispanic youth and adults to pursue digital careers (including artificial intelligence digital skills training) and tech entrepreneurship and to support teachers in underserved schools and HBCUs. Our programs are designed to close the STEM and digital skills divide by creating digital equity through education and workforce development for underserved communities.
Changing Expectations seeks to partner on the following inclusive AI education goals – close the AI digital divide by ensuring learners can use AI skills crucial for 21st-century education and the workforce, increase the diversity of AI users, managers, and developers, and provide AI literacy education to address culturally relevant issues like racial bias in AI.
In support of our mission to broaden the participation of communities unserved and underserved in the STEM and digital workforce, our programs include providing work-based learning opportunities in a paid pre-apprenticeship for Black and Hispanic high school students and adults.
We focus our work on reaching out to Black and Hispanic communities, low-income, aging individuals, LEP, rural, individuals with disabilities, and veterans who might otherwise not have access to quality STEM, tech, and digital skills preparation programs to close the opportunity gaps they face.
For every dollar donated, we can help underserved teachers, students, and adults. Not only do we provide access to technical education, we boost confidence, close opportunity gaps, build a better community, and ensure that underserved and underserved people have the skills needed to compete in today’s ever-evolving marketplace.
We give unserved and underserved adults, students, and their teachers the necessary digital skills to change the world!
“Our research shows learning how to program has an impact in improving sequencing skills. If you get better at sequencing, it has a measurable positive effect on reading comprehension. A parent can have their kid engage in coding with the knowledge that a lot of kids won’t become programmers, but there is this broad-based benefit.
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Major AchievEMents
Since 2011, Changing Expectations has supported over 50,000 underserved and underrepresented students both directly and indirectly by providing professional development for over 1,500 computer science teachers in partnership with Code.org and the University of Texas at Austin.
Invited to the White House for our work in STEM education for Black and Hispanic youth.