

Will the next the next Bill Gates, Sean Parker, or Mark Zuckerberg please stand up?

The White House announced Monday a new initiative to teach computer science to middle school and high school students, with about 60 school districts nationwide participating.

"While no one is born a computer scientist, becoming a computer scientist isn't as scary as it sounds," President Barack Obama said in a video message Monday. "With hard work and a little math and science, anyone can do it."

The nation's largest school districts in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, Houston, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida— with 4 million students—are promising to offer at least one computer science course, the White House said Monday to kick off Computer Science Education Week.

As much as $20 million in private donations from Gates, Parker, Zuckerberg, and others will go to training teachers. The Obama administration also announced an advanced placement course called Computer Science Principles.

The White House said that by 2020, about 50 percent of science, technology, engineering, and math vocations are "projected to be in computer science-related fields. Yet a large majority of K-12 schools still don’t offer computer programming classes."