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Preparing High Schoolers For Computer Science Careers
About 30 Lane Tech College Prep students are enrolled in a pilot course in computer science offered by the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Engineering.
Credit: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin / UIC
Students at Lane Tech College Prep are jumpstarting their future in computer science in a partnership between the Chicago public high school and the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Engineering.
About 30 Lane Tech students are enrolled in a pilot course that will give them both high school and college credit at the end of the year.
The course, Program Design I, is a collaboration between Dale Reed, clinical professor of computer science, and Daniel Law, chair of computer science at Lane Tech.
Law handles the day-to-day teaching, collaborating with Reed to create tests and assignments. UIC provides online support from teaching assistants.
"We are excited to see the investment into STEM education at Lane and see computer science as a pivotal field in our increasingly technological world," Reed says.
Sixty-three percent of new jobs in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math) are in computer science, Reed told the group on a visit to campus last semester.
"I can't tell you what kind of jobs you'll be doing, because things are changing in computer science at an exponential rate," he told the students.
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