Increasing Computer Science Training to Support Future Technology Workforce

​This project stems to replicate the actions of the English who in 2013 made a national change in the curriculum for its student to focus on programming skills to solve the skills gap in the technology industry. The state of Alabama has had its own standards for computer science for K-12 grade completed by the state of Alabama in 2009. It served to evaluate the Alabama Course of Study: Technology Education. With the aid of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) the groups created the standards for students in 2016. Coincide a revised version of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) with the K‐12 Computer Science Standards completed in 2017-18. Since the state currently only have standards defined but no course curriculum. AUCHIL is currently working alongside the Alabama Alliance for an Inclusive Middle Grades Computer Science Preparation through Makerspaces in the Alabama Black Belt Region. This alliance is composed of 18 other organization and academic institutions located across the state of Alabama. The objective is to create a curriculum for the state of Alabama. This will be completed by using practical teaching styles to educate students on basic programming methodology ​