Through this two-year extracurricular program, high school juniors and seniors are exposed to a wide variety of STEM careers and professionals, provided opportunities to develop real world technology skills, and better prepared to compete for advanced STEM education and jobs.
Program Benefits
Program highlights include:
•Professional Skills Coaching: Students attend a series of fun and engaging workshops that cover topics such as career planning, networking, project management, internship preparedness, time management and financial literacy.
•Technology Challenges: Students work with professional mentors to take part in website design competitions, the Georgia Tech InVenture Challenge, Georgia STEM Day, and Georgia Day of Code.
•Summer Professional Development: Students compete for paid summer technology internships with Atlanta firms or to participate in TAG-Ed’s free month-long coding camp.
•Higher Education Preparation: Students are provided opportunities to explore continuing education alternatives, prepare for SAT and ACT exams and research sources of college scholarships.