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Through the Broadening Participation Grant, the IEEE Computer Society has had the privilege of supporting emerging communities as they use technology to inspire success and new generations of innovators. The Broadening Participation Grant is unique among STEM outreach programs in that it has an international focus, extending opportunities to many who have little exposure to computing or advanced technology.IEEE Computer Society grants for educators provide STEM access in rural areas and empower educators through technology. The 2026 cohort carries the torch for another year, with five projects focused on global computing education that combine community empowerment and sustainable technology for social good.Empowering Underserved Teachers with Scratch for Interactive Science and Social Studies Teaching (Indonesia)This project arms female teachers in Indonesia with digital skills using a hybrid online mentoring and in-person teaching workshop. Students will master Scratch and design interactive science and social studies modules.The initiative will benefit more than 400 students, who will have the chance to engage more deeply with the lessons. The project also incorporates a peer-support network and offline toolkits — both of which foster longer-term collaboration and the continued success of the project.From Blackout to Breakthrough: A Solar-Powered STEM Hub (Nigeria)This initiative, which will take place in rural Nigeria, will give the area a solar-powered STEM lab and training hub. This will provide many children with their first exposure to digital tools. The program targets 300 girls each year, providing them with coding, STEM mentorship programs, and AI literacy.The program also incorporates a “train the trainer” component and partnerships with the local community, which sets the stage for ongoing, self-sustaining benefits.Promoting Broad Participation in ICT Education in Nomadic Primary School, Umugakwo (Nigeria)This project is particularly unique in that it empowers nomadic children to innovate with digital tools using a solar-powered computer lab. Even when moving from…

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 31 October 2025 – Consistently exhibiting top impact factor and Google scholar rankings, IEEE publications set the standard of excellence for scientists and engineers working in diverse disciplines around the world. By issuing journals that represent the full spectrum of engineering disciplines, IEEE creates an inclusive publishing platform for the global research community.“IEEE publications provide highly competitive, prestigious publishing opportunities for every field of engineering,” said Grace A. Lewis, 2025 IEEE Computer Society (CS) President-Elect and 2026 President and principal researcher, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI). “Authors benefit both from widespread visibility and global collaboration opportunities when they publish with IEEE.”But in addition to the recognition they receive when publishing in an IEEE journal, authors also may choose from a wide array of ways to publish, from traditional journals to fully open access opportunities. With IEEE’s goal of supporting all authors and readers globally, the organization seeks to offer any author a publication opportunity that is compliant with their circumstances, regardless of their funding status, the publishing mandates they may have in place, or where in the world they may work.The Computer Society is fully aligned with IEEE’s approach to Open Access.“Published results enable the evolution of the field by spurring new ideas,” said Lewis. “Within the IEEE Computer Society, we want to continue to fuel the advancement of science and engineering by providing access to the latest findings, and we do so by offering a wide variety of publication opportunities. It’s why IEEE and Computer Society journals consistently rank as the preferred options for authors in the field.”To that end, in addition to traditional publishing options, IEEE continues to support open science and provides more options and choices to support the work and needs of all authors and researchers, including: IEEE Access – A highly-cited…

The field of software engineering has undergone significant changes in the last ten years — influenced by the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and other automation technologies. Though AI is changing the software development landscape, it doesn’t mean opportunities are stagnating. In fact, technologies like AI are likely to create more opportunities in software engineering. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that software engineering will grow 15% over the next decade, much faster than average for all other fields. This growth will be fueled, in part, by technologies like AI.Why Software Engineers are Needed in the Age of AISince AI can competently do tasks like coding, some software engineers worry that AI could replace the need for skilled coders. However, others see AI as a chance to redefine the profession and create new opportunities. This article will explore those opportunities and how software engineers can take advantage of them through investing in education and reskilling.AI can give software engineers more time to focus on creativity, strategic thinkingCompleting routine coding tasks may have traditionally been the purview of software engineers, but few software engineers go into the field just to code. Working as a software engineer also requires skills in creativity, strategic thinking, problem solving, solution development and project management. Though AI might be proficient at basic coding, human programmers are uniquely good at the more challenging, nuanced parts of programming and project development. By collaborating with AI on basic tasks, software engineers can create more time for innovation.AI coding creates the need for skilled human evaluatorsAI is getting better at coding, but the work it produces is far from perfect. AI code can include critical errors that may lead to crashes, security breaches and breakdowns. These errors might be subtle and hard for novices to spot. This is where skilled…