Doug Bergman has been a teacher for 20+ years, most of that in Computer Science. Having traveled, lived, taught at, and attended schools in several countries around the world-- he’s experienced private, public, large, small, rural, urban, college-prep, and has taught grades K-16 as well as ages from 3–98. Over the last decade, he’s focused mainly on high school, and has developed a 4-year CS program at his school, Porter-Gaud in Charleston, South Carolina. The main focus of their program has been to dramatically increase the number of students in Computer Science, especially the percent of females. Classes are “slightly structured chaos”, full of questions and hard work, with a side order of energy. While classes tend to be some of school’s most challenging and time- demanding, they have seen their enrollment quadruple. He believes in classrooms, which are student-centered, project-based, hands-on, and collaborative where experimentation and failure are keys to success.