No CS Background. Below Poverty Line. Now Learning Quantum ft. A.M. Bhatt | My EdTech Life 359

About this episode

A.M. Bhatt discusses the impact of introducing quantum computing to public high school students with no prior computer science background.

What happens when you take public high school students with zero computer science background — 87% of whom are below the federal poverty line — and put them in one of only two quantum computing programs for high schoolers in the entire nation? That's exactly what A.M. Bhatt and his nonprofit DAE are doing in Connecticut, and the results are challenging everything we think we know about education reform, student potential, and what it really means to prepare young people for the future. In t...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Fonz Mendoza

Guest: A.M. Bhatt

Topics covered

• quantum computing
• education reform
• student potential
• high school programs
• poverty

Keywords

• quantum computing
• education
• high school
• poverty line
• student potential
• education reform

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DAE

Places: Connecticut

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