UCLA’s Center X: Computer Science Education for an Equitable World
How the UCLA Computer Science Equity Project is advocating for equity in CS and active civic participation
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Katy Knight at CUF: Bolstering Computing Education in NYC’s Schools to Lay the Groundwork for a More Diverse Tech Sector
This forum, featuring Siegel's President Katy Knight, explored how to ensure more young people are prepared with the foundational computational thinking and digital skills that make them stronger learners and problem solvers. Read the recap or watch the full event.
Meet Our 2022-2023 Siegel Research Fellows
Siegel Family Endowment is thrilled to introduce the 2022-2023 cohort of researchers, academics, and public policy experts who make up the foundation’s Siegel Research Fellows Program.
A Lookback on the Pilot Cohort of our Siegel Research Fellows 2021-2022
The inaugural cohort of impressive researchers and academics produced publications presented and workshopped their research at monthly research seminars, and even published a book during their time as Siegel Research Fellows.
Event Recap: Katy Knight on “Out of the Box: A Conversation About the Future of Schooling”
The virtual event “Out of the Box: A Conversation About the Future of School” featured an afternoon of panels with the most influential voices in education. In Funding the Future of Schooling, philanthropists discuss the role they see for themselves and others in supporting system modernization.
Schools as Community Infrastructure
This whitepaper offer a vision of schools as more than buildings. We want to think of schools (and all the extensions of schools, the many places where teaching and learning happen) as pieces of community infrastructure.
Leadership Q&A: Claire Anderson from Ripple Effect on Water Literacy as a Tool for Addressing Climate Change
There are few places in the United States that are as frequently challenged by the immediate and increasingly urgent impacts of climate change as New Orleans, Louisiana.
Our 2022 H1 Grantmaking in Review
As we wrap up the first half of the year, recent events have demonstrated that our work has never been more important.
Leadership Q&A: Research and Robotics on the power of cross-sector, community-driven innovation
Mark Parsons envisioned and founded the Consortium for Research and Robotics (CRR) in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2014, and has since departed to start New Bedford Research and Robotics (NBRR) in New Bedford, MA.
Event Recap: Philanthropy’s Role in Education at SXSW EDU 2022
Over the last few years, change has been rapid, unprecedented, and unpredictable - and students, teachers, and parents have all had to figure out how to share the burden of increasingly complex learning environments together.
Research Brief: Connecting Computational Thinking and Metacognition in the Classroom
Siegel Family Endowment has a long history of strengthening computational thinking activities in K-12 classrooms and beyond.
Reflections on 2021 from Katy Knight, Executive Director
As we transition into the new year, I’m grateful for the chance to reflect on the lessons and insights that have guided our work during another year of unprecedented change.