Technical Education

What started as adult education focused on agriculture and home economics has grown into a flagship program at Louisiana State University, with certifications in fields such as AI, cybersecurity and cloud computing.

A public community college in Washington is seeking approval from its accreditor for a bachelor's of science program in computer science to address the community's educational and workforce needs.

A new elective course this fall at Great Bend High School in Kansas, created by the nonprofit Enterprise KC, will include cybersecurity basics, skill building and a simulation at the Heartland Cyber Range.

In addition to programming and technical skills, the next generation of AI developers may also need training in subjects traditionally aligned with liberal-arts education, such as ethics, problem-solving and communication.

Syracuse University's new Center for Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing will enlist experts in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, manufacturing processes and robotics to lead research and education in the field.

Assembly Bill 2097 in California would make computer science a graduation requirement by 2030, and only 4 percent of K-12 students in Stanislaus County are currently enrolled in computer science courses.

With help from a $1 million donation from Google, an all-male historically Black college in Georgia set up a new multipurpose space to serve as a classroom and collaborative computer lab for students and researchers.

A team of seniors at Midland High School in Michigan used a $2,000 grant to create an artificial intelligence-enabled app, CallGuard, to determine whether a received phone call is coming from a scammer.

Programs like those at Central New Mexico Community College or the Career and Technical Education Center in Hobbs (CTECH) are fast-tracking students for careers in fields like information technology and quantum computing.

Two of Rochester's state senators, Liz Boldon and Carla Nelson, are at odds over how to fund a program that allows students to earn a high school diploma and an associate degree as information technologists or LPNs.

The Technology Fellowship, a collaboration between Synchrony Skills Academy and The Knowledge House, will teach low-income adult learners the Python programming language and web data applications.

iCEV, a Texas-based company that provides online curriculum for certificate programs in many vocations, will share information on new courses of study, testing and credentialing tools, best practices and other insights.

The finance software company Sage made donations to the HBCU Morehouse College and its Center for Broadening Participation in Computing in support of classes in artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship.

Penn State Wilkes-Barre has partnered with the cybersecurity company Fortinet to offer students training and certifications in Fortinet systems while getting their degrees, at no extra cost.

Middle-school students in Caldwell County, North Carolina, worked with Google Data Center volunteers and Raspberry Pi devices to build and test their own computers, which they got to take home.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will name the best student programming teams in the world based on their performances in timed challenges.

State leaders want computational thinking, programming, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital citizenship to be part of computer science, but decisions to require them will be made by local school boards.

Winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge will attend the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, showing off app concepts they built using an Apple-developed coding language.