CEISMC Activity

2024 K-12 InVenture Prize Team Grocery Eyes’ Nellie Klodner and Anna Borsh were presented with an official resolution praising their accomplishments by Georgia House Representative Kimberly New of district 64 at a special celebration at their school, Panter Elementary, on October 3 attended by family, friends and school and community supporters.  

The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at Georgia Tech is currently offering STEAM-focused Saturday programs for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Expanded Learning Programs teams in Atlanta and Savannah are coordinating these efforts.  

Forty teachers from across the state worked together this summer in K-12 InVenture Prize professional development workshops that have been reimagined with a new focus on peer-led learning, immersive, hands-on experiences, inspirational tours, and high-tech tools and skills. For the first time, some of K-12 Inventure Prize’s veteran teacher partners worked as workshop facilitators and mentors to newer teachers who are discovering the curriculum and competition for the first time.

Invention Convention U.S. Nationals is a unique multi-day experience for students to present their inventions to educational and industry expert judges as well as other student inventors across the country. Hosted at the Henry Ford in Dearborn, Invention Convention U.S. Nationals invites student inventors to compete at the national level.

Students from Berkmar Middle School in Gwinnett County and Lakeside High School in DeKalb County have been learning code and music composition by using EarSketch - a web-based digital audio workstation developed at Tech – through the REMEZCLA curriculum, which is specially designed to engage Latinx students.

Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) and STEM@GTRI have launched a pilot program for rural Georgia school districts that provides high schoolers with access to interactive modules in the areas of coding, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, sensors and data visualization. The participating school districts for the 2022-2023 academic year include Cartersville City, Chattooga County, Effingham County, Fayette County, Gordon County, Haralson County, Liberty County, and Walker County.

Georgia AIM will support a total of nine inter-related projects throughout the state and is designed to increase job and wage opportunities in distressed and rural communities and among historically underrepresented and underserved people.

More than 200 students and their families attended the 10th Annual Latino College and STEM Fair (LCSF), a virtual bilingual event hosted in mid-March by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s GoSTEM program.

The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) at Georgia Tech’s Atlanta and Savannah campuses will be offering STEM/STEAM student programming this summer for elementary, middle, and high school students. Registration is now open for these programs that will begin June 6 and end on July 22.