It's awesome that you're doing this. The inclusion of more people with a CS background in education (and public service more generally) is a huge opportunity fo

It's awesome that you're doing this. The inclusion of more people with a CS background in education (and public service more generally) is a huge opportunity for our society. I think Iv makes some dynamite points: > we need but more people with a solid general culture about computing: > What's the internet? where is the cloud? Where are data stored? How do they pass around? > What's a computer? A smartphone? Where is data stored? Where is computing happening? In addition, I would try and give your students a flavour for what logic and discrete math are about. - Basic boolean logic and applications to natural language problems - For students that are inspired by this, maybe some first order logic, or a classic puzzle or two (Hilbert's Hotel or Russell's paradox) Finally, I would try and incorporate some applied statistics. There are so many critical statistical concepts that are introduced via calculus (and therefore lost on 90% of the class) that could be introduced in a more concrete manner and have more impact. Examples that come to mind are: - How bell curves arise in nature - How power-law distributions arise in language data - How pareto distributions arise in time-to-event scenarios