I-3 Experience: Expanding Research and Design Opportunities for Under-represented High School Students
Christina Gardner‐McCune, Darrryl DUPE McCune, Chanteal Edwards, Cedric Stallworth · 2020
Her research focuses on gaining a better understand of how students learn and apply STEM and computing content in their everyday lives.She is particularly interested in the iterative design, refinement, and sustainability of curriculum and program development to support computing and STEM learning in formal and informal learning environments.She has designed and piloted a mobile application course for undergraduate non-CS majors through her participation last summer in the national pilot of the new AP CS Principles course.She is currently designing mobile application curriculum with MIT AP Inventor for 8th grade mathematics classes and middle and high school social studies classes.Dr. Gardner-McCune recently completed a year and a half long postdoctoral research position in computer science education at Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing where she led the design of the I-3 Experience programs.She holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and earned both her master's and doctorate in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.She is also a board member of Y-STEM (Youth Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics organization), a non-profit foundation focused on enhancing the quality and accessibility of formal and informal STEM learning opportunities to African American and disadvantaged youth. Mr. Darrryl Bryant McCune II, YES Beyond LimitsDarryl B. McCune II is a certified IT specialist through Georgia's Metropolitan Regional Education Service Agency.For the past two years he has been developing computer science curriculum in collaboration with the office of Outreach, Enrollment, and Community of Georgia Tech.His work has focused on exposing students to computer science through kinesthetic learning and physical computing.He is also certified to teach high school mathematics.In August 2011, McCune's teaching portfolio was selected to be a model by which nontraditional teachers would be trained to develop their own curriculum plans in route to certification at Metro RESA.In April 2012, McCune was awarded an Outstanding Staff Performance Award.Outside of developing curriculum and programming for high school students, during the summer months McCune expands his audience to reach middle and elementary age students with summer camp topics that address topics such as adventures in animation, storytelling, animatronics, programming in java, game design and arduino development.