“Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but it remains marginalized throughout K-12 education.
Only 29 states allow students to count computer science courses toward high school graduation.
There are currently 607,708 open computing jobs nationwide.
Last year, only 42,969 computer science students graduated into the workforce.”

http://code.org/promote
This year marks the first year Centeno took part along with 2,121,577 others, in the Hour of Code.