This course will focus on exploring the influence of exploratory data analysis and statistics on middle and high school curricula. Students will be engaged as learners of statistical content as well as teachers of statistical content or researchers in the realm of statistics education.

The role of organized business advocacy in the regulation of the economy. Covers theories of business power in society, empirical analysis of lobbying in economic policy making, and the formal and informal methods to maintain, supplement and moderate competition.

The course will contribute to the overall goal of making research in computing more accessible to students from historically underrepresented groups in computer science. To that end, the workshop topics will include a combination of practical, social, and research-related topics. Examples of those topics include cultivating curiosity, building confidence and combatting imposter syndrome, summarizing findings, visualizing data, forming hypotheses, applications in computing, and developing collaboration strategies.