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Off the Playground: When Kids Co-design Technology
The HCIL KidsTeam, a leader in youth technology design, creates a gamified digital platform.

The Maryland State House in Annapolis
New Law Ensures Equivalent Access to Digital Tools for All of Maryland’s K-12 Students
Trace Center Director and iSchool professor Jonathan Lazar contributed to and testified in support of the bill to bring an accessibilit …

HCIL Faculty and Students to Participate in CHI 2022
23 members of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab will present their research at prestigious HCI conference.

PhD Alumni Spotlight: Empowering Kids and Adults to Design Better Together – Greg Walsh, ‘12
Alumni’s PhD experience inspired the launch of two research groups to develop new technology for youth and other in-need communities. …

(Video) Search Mastery Speaker Series: Supporting Children’s Online Information Discovery
Dr. Jerry Alan Fails and Dr. Sole Pera present CAST, a new search engine interface developed to empower emergent searchers and improve …

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iSchool Professor Receives $1 Million NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Data Science Curriculum
Dr. David Weintrop will be working with D.C. Public Schools to address inequities in high school data science education.