Bama gets NSF grant to train teachers for AP Computer Science

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<p>[Dialog</a> - UA Faculty & Staff News Teaching the Teachers](<a href=“http://dialog.ua.edu/2012/12/teaching-the-teachers/]Dialog”>http://dialog.ua.edu/2012/12/teaching-the-teachers/)</p>

<p>*Continuing efforts to introduce computer science to high school students, a $1 million grant was awarded to UA to train teachers in a new computer-science course and future College Board AP exam.</p>

<p>The grant from the National Science Foundation to Dr. Jeff Gray, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering, builds upon his work with the College Board to craft a new Advanced Placement computer-science course designed to increase secondary and post-secondary educational interest in computer science and improve collegiate preparation for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, majors.*</p>

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<p>That’s good. Our parochial HS has 150 students and only offers a limited number of CS courses. I did some some research, and was surprised to learn that the large public HS’s in the area offer the same number of courses. Hard to believe that’s the case in a technologically advanced country.</p>