The summer program at Texas State Technical College provides learning initiatives to local middle school and high school students during vacation months. The initiative, entitled the Summer Academy, recently received funding from the Texas Workforce Commission and the GEAR UP Waco grant program, reported Tech Times Online.
The Summer Academy will feature a number of different programs, all of which will focus on student learning in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. According to the news source, the program's curriculum includes video game programming, robotics workshops, computer sciences and welding, among others.
With the STEM-centered curriculum, program officials may consider delivering their lessons through educational technology. Therefore, teachers may want to incorporate an e-reader, a 3D computer program or a
DLP projector into lessons when appropriate.
Students involved in the Summer Academy are both having fun and learning valuable skills for the future.
"I've learned a lot though, like how computers run and how the news gets their information,"
Larrissa Johnson, a sophomore at Waco High School, told the media organization. "The instructors really know what they're teaching."
