{"676382":{"#nid":"676382","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rural Georgia High Schools Computer Science Program Reaches New Heights","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech-led \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/rural-cs-initiative\u0022\u003EComputer Science for Rural Georgia High Schools Program\u003C\/a\u003E recently received additional financial support from the Georgia General Assembly for 2024-25. The program has exploded with unprecedented growth over the last year, going from 800 student participants to 4,400. Participating high school teachers across Georgia met at Georgia Tech Aug. 26 \u2013 27 to share ideas and best practices going into the new school year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched with funding from the state legislature in 2022, the program was developed collaboratively by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECEISMC\u003C\/a\u003E) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/outreach\/stem-at-gtri\u0022\u003ESTEM@GTRI\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech Research Institute\u2019s K-12 outreach program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt focuses on developing coding, music, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity skills in high school students in rural parts of the state. During its pilot year, the program served 11 schools in eight school districts in Bartow, Chattooga, Effingham, Fayette, Gordon, Haralson, Liberty, and Walker counties.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, it serves 39 schools and 24 school districts: Candler, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Clinch, Decatur, Dooly, Fannin, Grady, Hancock, Houston, Jeff Davis, Jones, Laurens, Lumpkin, Macon, Oglethorpe, Peach, Screven, Stephens, Tattnall, Thomas, Treutlen, and Twiggs counties.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EModules taught to students include introduction to coding, advanced coding, principles of cybersecurity, foundations of AI, introduction to robotics, intermediate coding, intermediate robotics, sensors and data science, website design, sensors, and data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis rural computer science initiative has been transformative for Twiggs County schools,\u201d said Mack Bullard, school superintendent. \u201cWe find it very difficult to find computer science teachers who are willing to come to rural Georgia to teach.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe called partnering with Georgia Tech professors \u201ctransformative for our school system. Experiences like robotics and coding in class have excited our kids now that they\u0027ve been able to see what\u0027s possible. From our collaborations with other teachers in this program, I can see future student projects in Twiggs County related to agriculture, such as the building and programming of probes. This computer science program has been phenomenal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech-led \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/rural-cs-initiative\u0022\u003EComputer Science for Rural Georgia High Schools Program\u003C\/a\u003E recently received additional financial support from the Georgia General Assembly for 2024-25.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech-led Computer Science for Rural Georgia High Schools Program recently received additional financial support from the Georgia General Assembly for 2024-25. 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