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By oht_editor | on February 10, 2024

IMLAY CITY Imlay City High School (ICHS) has been recognized for promoting computer science to its female students.

Recently, ICHS received the Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles, an introductory course at ICHS that exposes students to the foundations of computer science and programming. Computer science is a growing field that has become vital to almost every facet of society, from the economy to education to entertainment. More importantly, there are more job opportunities than computer science graduates. In 2023, Michigan alone had nearly 15,000 openings in computing jobs with an average starting salary of $78,000.

ICHS teacher Doug Sloan, who teaches AP Computer Science Principles, said his main goal is to expose as many students as possible to the opportunity to learn and grow their knowledge of computer science, regardless of their background and prior learning experiences. He is proud that ICHS has had so many female students take the course, as women are overwhelmingly underrepresented in computer science.

ICHS junior Summer Belleville stated that she enjoys computer science because everything is logical almost like fitting together the pieces of a puzzle. She said that when people hear the term computer science, they may have some fear or uncertainty, but its not as hard as people want to make it out to be.

Junior Lakynn Allessandrini said that shes learned that attention to detail is important in computer science, but she enjoys it because, at its heart, computer science is all about problem-solving and being able to use code to be creative, she said.

AP Computer Science Principles is the first in a sequence of courses that ICHS is striving to introduce in the future. Students may use the course in place of a math course in their senior year. If students are successful on the cumulative AP Exam administered in May, they may be eligible for college credit.

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Imlay City High School receives AP CSP Female Diversity Award - The County Press - Thecountypress