“Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code,” says code.org with an awesome video. See it here in one or all of its three different lengths.
I applaud code.org‘s important efforts promoting computer science with the video, quotes from famous persons, and links to CS resources. They cooperate with CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) and other organizations. And founder Hadi Partovi spoke at the CSTA2013 conference in mid-July. I enjoyed talking with him at the conference and came away with a good feeling about what the organizations can accomplish working together.
Computer science teachers especially should check out PDFs of presentations (including Hadi’s) being added to CSTA2013Presentations. They include many good ideas and info.