Richard Kick teaches computer science and math at Newbury Park High School, in Newbury, California. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and a master’s degree in mathematics from Chicago State University.

Rich taught Advanced Placement® (AP) computer science using Pascal beginning in the first year of AP® computer science. He later taught APCS courses using C++ and Java. He wrote C++ code to render and transform 2D and 3D cross sections of 6D phase space data and wrote accelerator simulation software at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory at the time the World Wide Web was created at CERN.

Rich has served as a College Board exam reader, table leader, question leader, and Computer Science Test Development Committee member. He is a former member of the AP® Computer Science A/AB Development Committee, a five-time Computer Science Principles Pilot instructor, a co-chair of the original AP® Computer Science Principles Development Committee, and a current teacher of APCSA and APCSP.

Rich is a contributing author for the K-12 Computer Science Framework, California State Computer Science Standards, and the Computer Science in K-12: An A-To-Z Handbook on Teaching Programming.