What would Dracula do? That’s up to the students in this course merging literature, legend and computer science.

A legislative mandate would do what decades-long efforts have failed to do: force districts to make computer science a priority by offering the class.

After a decade of partnership with Harvard, Yale’s CS50 course will no longer be offered starting in fall 2025 due to limited funding and an expanding computer science department.

Freeburg travels to middle and high schools in Swink, La Junta, Lamar and Trinidad and sees students who want to learn more complex computer skills but don’t have access to courses.