
Welina mai! The Advancing Culturally-Relevant Computing (aCRC) project is a researcher-practitioner partnership between faculty and staff at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education. This project is a 3-year initiative with a primary focus on providing upper elementary educators (grades 4-6) in Hawai’i the resources and preparation needed to integrate Computer Science (CS) education into their teaching.
We believe that structured professional development modeling culturally-relevant computing is an effective way to prepare educators to reliably produce valued CS and computational thinking outcomes while simultaneously promoting valued culture-based outcomes.

aCRC is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Research on Learning under Award No. 2122874.
Goals

To develop culturally-relevant computing modules

To implement a professional development program about culturally-relevant computing

To form a professional learning community about culturally-relevant computing