Computer Science Academy
The Academy for Computer Science at Bishop Kelly High School, besides preparing students for educational and career paths related to computer science, also exposes students to the abundance of relationships between computer science and everyday life. The academy is designed to fit within Bishop Kelly’s existing culture of excellence and is informed by the needs of the broader STEM community.
Our Students Will Be:
- Empowered learners, leveraging technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals.
- Digital citizens, recognizing the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, acting in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
- Knowledge constructors, critically curating a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences.
- Innovative designers, using a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
- Computational thinkers, developing and employing strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.
- Creative communicators, communicating clearly and expressing themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
- Global collaborators, using digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
