Kimberly Oakes, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute lecturer, right, helps Questar III STEM High School student Sarah Sweet, left, learn how to program a robotic arm on Aug. 2, 2023. Robotics is one of ...

Half of the high schools in the Capital Region do not offer any computer science courses, according to a report that called for more "computational thinking" at all grade levels.