The Global Teaching Project’s sixth annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program at Mississippi State University provides promising high school students from rural, high-poverty Mississippi communities immersive instruction to help them prepare to take various Advanced Placement (AP)® science courses in the coming school year.  The Summer Program is free of charge to students, their families, and their schools. Students at the Summer Program reside over a 15-day period on the Mississippi State campus, where they attend instructional sessions corresponding to the AP courses that they will take in the 2022-2023 academic year—AP Physics 1, AP Biology, or AP Computer Science Principles. …

In recent weeks, rural Mississippi high school students in the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program completed a full year of study by taking Advanced Placement (AP)® exams in some of the most challenging subjects offered—AP Physics 1, AP Biology, and AP Computer Science Principles. AP courses prepare students for college rigor, enhance admission prospects, and can reduce tuition costs by enabling students to earn college credit prior to enrollment.  Yet the benefits of APs are largely denied to the very students most in need of educational opportunity. In particular, AP offerings in critical STEM disciplines are simply unavailable to students, however talented, in …

Each Spring, students taking AP STEM courses through the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program gather on Mississippi university campuses to prepare for the AP exams that are administered in May. On April 8th and 9th, over 140 participants attended Spring Review Programs for AP Physics 1 and AP Computer Science Principles at Delta State University in Cleveland and Mississippi State University’s Meridian campus.  (We also are conducting AP Biology Review Programs separately at venues around the state.) View Photo Album from 2022 Delta State and Mississippi State Spring Review Programs Students and teachers from 18 high schools attended the Review Sessions, which were led by AP-certified Supervisory Instructors, with …

  Each year, the Global Teaching Project organizes an instructional program over the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend for Mississippi high school students taking AP Science courses through GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program.  The annual program affirms the nexus between Civil Rights and educational opportunity by providing immersive Science instruction, as well as educating students on Civil Rights history. This year, approximately 200 participants gathered at university campuses and other venues across the state for in-person instruction, while others had the opportunity to join the instructional sessions virtually. The Advanced STEM Access Program, implemented by GTP in conjunction with a consortium of public school districts, provides promising high …

Cameron Keys achieves exceptional score on AP Computer Science Exam; Cai Davis awarded National Science Foundation Scholarship. The Global Teaching Project was founded on a simple premise—every community has promising students capable of excelling academically, even in rigorous courses, if provided quality instruction and sufficient supports. GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program, now in its fifth year, acts on that premise by providing promising high school students from rural, high-poverty Mississippi communities access to advanced STEM courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise could not offer, due to both resource constraints and a chronic, and …