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This measure would designate the month of September 2018 as California Computer Science Education Month. The measure would encourage schools, teachers, researchers, universities, business leaders, and policymakers to identify mechanisms for teachers to receive cutting-edge professional development to provide sustainable learning experiences in computer science education and would encourage the exposure of pupils to computer science concepts. The measure would also encourage opportunities to be provided for females and underrepresented minorities in computer science. Bill Text - ACR-265 California Computer Science Education Month. Designates the month of September 2018 as California Computer Science Education Month and encourages schools, teachers, researchers, universities, business leaders, and policymakers to identify mechanisms for teachers to receive cutting-edge professional development to provide sustainable learning experiences in computer science education. Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative findings: 201720180ACR265_Assembly Floor Analysis (1).pdf 1) California Computer Science Education Month highlights the crucial role that computer science plays in transforming our society, and also highlights how computer science enables innovation and creates economic opportunities. 2) Computing technology is an integral part of modern culture, and is transforming how people interact with each other and the world around them.3) Computer science builds students' computational, critical thinking, and deeper learning skills, which enables them to understand and create, and not simply use, the next generation of technological tools 201720180ACR265_Senate Floor Analyses (2).pdf SUPPORT: (Verified 8/21/18) Council for a Strong America Microsoft TechNet Please not description in this bill about the risk with screentime with blue light and those support this harm. 10