Fontbonne Corridor Wins AP Laptop Science Award From College Board
BAY RIDGE — Fontbonne Corridor, The Lab University for Ladies, has acquired the University Board’s 2020 AP Computer system Science Feminine Diversity Award for increasing younger women’s obtain to Innovative Placement (AP) Pc Science Concepts (CSP). Fontbonne was one particular of 831 educational facilities to be nationally acknowledged for this achievement.
This honor also acknowledges the operate Fontbonne is accomplishing to engage far more college students in computer system science and to close the gender gap. In accordance to the National Girls Collaborative Job, women only generate 18% of computer science bachelor’s levels and account for 28% of the science and engineering workforce.
Fontbonne Director of Technologies Mark Surdyka has been overseeing the laptop science development currently being manufactured within the significant school. After launching the school’s Women Who Code club in 2014, Surdyka said he teamed up with the Edhesive application and the Amazon Potential