ExCITE Project

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ExCITE is a Research Practitioner Partnership (RPP) comprising International Technology and Engineering Education Association (a national teacher professional association), subject matter experts, researchers, evaluators, partnering with state and local supervisors and classroom teachers in two school districts in Maryland and Virginia (Carroll County, MD and Henrico County, VA), to enhance the exemplary NSF-funded Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) curriculum with the integration of real-world heads-on, hands-on problem-based design challenges to ensure the resulting curriculum is amenable to the high school Technology and Engineering teachers who will deliver the curriculum

types:

Content Provider Education Association Teacher Preparation Programs

audiences:

District Staff Policy Makers School Administrators Teachers

levels:

High School (Grades 9-12)

regions:

Mid-Atlantic Northeast National

settings:

In School/In Person Online After School/Informal Learning Spaces

teacher:

1 to 100

student:

Under 500

Curriculum

What is this?

Beauty and Joy of Computing for Technology and Engineering Teachers (BJC-T&E)

ExCITE will add robotics to use the well- respected BJC AP-CSP curriculum to suit the design based teaching used by T&E and STEM teachers

K-12 CS Framework Aligned