Mrs. Cumberland's Advanced Placement (AP)® students, Alex Walker, Mandela Middleton, and Quan Clemons, attended a three-day seminar with Jackson State University and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum for the MLK weekend (January 17-19). The students were chosen to participate in The Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Winter Program.
The Global Teaching Project partnered with Jackson State University to present the Advanced STEM Winter Program on this historic weekend, marking the 96th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
GTP’s Winter Program provides promising high school students from rural Mississippi communities immersive instruction to help them prepare to take various Advanced Placement (AP)® science courses in the coming school year.
Alex Walker (AP Computer Science Principle), Mandela Middleton and Quan Clemons (both AP Biology) and Philadelphia High School AP Teacher Deana Cumberland took part in the AP Computer Science program. The Program works with those students to further prepare them for the rigor of AP STEM courses that will be offered during the school year.
Part of the weekend’s program was hosted at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The Museum “shares the stories of a Mississippi movement that changed the nation” and highlights Mississippians’ “fight for equality that transformed the state and nation.”
In addition to instructional sessions, the Program provides extensive recreational opportunities, speakers, tours, and other activities.