Get Big Fast: “500 Club” Delivers Teachers For Code.org

theodp writes: The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports that Ben Schafer, an associate CS prof at the Univ. of Northern Iowa, was recognized at Code.org’s annual summit for training 570 K-12 teachers in Iowa, which is equivalent to 5.5 percent of all U.S. teachers trained. Schafer ranked No. 2 in the ‘500 Club’, a Code.org affiliate of trainers who trained more than 500 teachers in the first year of the program. Code.org’s K-5 Affiliates "deliver one-day, in-person workshops to local elementary school teachers to teach computer science in a format that’s fun and accessible". A Term Sheet explains to potential Affiliates that "Code.org will pay you $50 per workshop-attendee to cover costs, including food, and to compensate you and any teaching assistants." According to a White House’ Fact Sheet, Code.org plans to use $20 million in philanthropic funds to train 10,000 teachers by fall 2015 and 25,000 teachers by fall 2016. You can follow their progress on Twitter, kids!