Husband and wife professors at Georgia Tech were named the nation's top computer science educators Wednesday by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson won the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award from the association, which is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.

The pair were honored for Georgia Computes!, which has increased the number and diversity of computing students. The program trains high school teachers, develops school lessons and hosts camps for students.