The UKG Academy for Computer Science and Education inspires and cultivates the advancement of a community of K-12 teachers and students who continuously rediscover computing and apply its principles to creatively solve problems and engender innovation.
Our Objectives:
- To increase the number of South Florida Students who choose a computing major.
- To improve the skills of South Florida high school students in computer programming and problem solving.
- To increase awareness of South Florida high school computing students about research activities in the area of computer science.
- To increase access to training for South Florida teachers in subjects such as Computer Science Principles and elementary programming.
- To increase the pipeline of computing students who choose to major at FIU and continue to advanced work, including FIU research groups and internships at local companies.
- To improve the teaching skills of FIU programming team members through practical instructional experience and mentoring by FIU faculty.
Major Upcoming Events
- For an overview of the types of workshops we offer, please visit Workshops.
- We have added CSA to our Code.org Workshops! (See Code.org Workshops)
- Learn to prepare your students for the AP CSA Exams, the next step after CS Discoveries and CS Principles.
- Our summer applications are open for Computer Science Discoveries, Computer Science Principles, and Computer Science A!
- We are excited to announce our upcoming Meet & Greet events!
- FIU Academy and Code.org – Administrator Event on 02/04/23 at 10:00AM (See Upcoming Events for more information)
- FIU Academy and Code.org – Administrator & Educator Event 02/11/23 at 10:00AM (See Upcoming Events for more information)