By Jeremy Coumbes on February 4, 2021 at 10:47am
Routt Catholic High School has earned a national award for diversity in the classroom.
Routt Catholic High School has earned the College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles.
Anna Terwische, a Junior at Routt, says the computer logic learned in the class applies to many other things not just related to computer programming.
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We’ve learned different types of coding like Python and HTML. You can create websites and make them do different things. We’ve also started to use 3D printing, and we are working on printing a prosthetic hand for a guy from Missouri, so that’s been cool. We’ve been sending it back and forth making new versions of it to see what works best for him.”
Six Mississippi schools earn AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award
News Highlights: Six Mississippi schools earn AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award. Posted: Jan 28, 2021/1137 CST / Updated: Jan 28, 2021/1137 CST
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Six schools in Mississippi have earned the College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science A (CSA) and / or AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). Schools that have been awarded the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have expanded girls’ access to AP computer science courses.
Of the 20,000 institutions that offer AP courses, these six schools are among the 1,119 that achieve either 50% or more female representation in one of the two AP computer science courses or a percentage of female computer scientists that that of the female students of the meet or exceed school. population during the 2019-2020 school year: