Global Teaching Project launches Year 10 with annual Advanced STEM Summer Program at Mississippi State
The Global Teaching Project has launched its 10th year of expanding educational opportunity with its annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program at Mississippi State University.
GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program provides promising high school students in rural, high-poverty communities access to advanced science courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise may not be able to offer, due to limited resources and a chronic, and worsening, shortage of qualified teachers.
To date, GTP has served—free of charge—over 3,000 students at more than 50 Mississippi public high schools, and offered courses in AP Biology, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Physics 1, and AP Statistics.
The Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program helps students who will take classes through GTP in the upcoming school year prepare for the rigor of AP STEM courses. Even students who have the aptitude and work ethic needed to succeed often have significant gaps in their substantive foundations. The Summer STEM Program begins to fill in those gaps.
The Summer STEM Program, now underway, allows students from underserved communities to experience life on a major university campus—living in dorms, eating in dining halls, and utilizing university instructional and recreational facilities. Students at the Summer Program also receive immersive instruction in the AP subject they will be taking from leading educators from around the country, including:
- A Mississippi AP instructor recently named as the top science teacher in the state by the National Science Foundation
- The professor of Secondary Science Education at the University of Mississippi School of Education
- The lead author of the nation’s most widely used AP Biology textbook
- A Yale Biomedical Engineering graduate who was a finalist for the National Football Foundation’s Campbell Trophy, awarded annually to the nation’s top scholar-athlete
- Tutors from Yale, Harvard Medical School, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and elsewhere.
The Summer STEM Program is just one component of GTP’s blended instructional model, which includes both in-person and remote instruction, teacher training, high-dose tutoring, lesson plans and pedagogical support, physical textbooks and workbooks; online resources; technology; supplies; and semi-annual university-based residential instructional programs—culminating in the AP exams administered in May 2027.
