Truman is one of 30 schools across the country to participate in this special program.
BRONX, NY – Harry S Truman High School is among 30 US high schools selected for the JROTC-CS Demonstration Project, a new initiative led by CSforALL (Computer Science for ALL) and the Air Force Junior ROTC, aimed at bridging the CS education access gap at Junior ROTC schools. Today only 32% of Junior ROTC high schools offer an Advanced Placement (AP) computer science course.
From nearly 900 Air Force Junior ROTC host schools across the United States, Truman is among 30 schools from 16 states selected to pilot this concept. Collectively the 30 participating schools serve over 4000 JROTC cadets and 55K students overall.
As a JROTC-CS Demonstration Project school Truman will receive school-level capacity building training, professional development for teachers and Junior ROTC instructors, and internship, mentoring and scholarship opportunities for our students.
“Truman’s participation in this project will inform the CS and cybersecurity education model for Junior ROTC schools across the US,” said Ruthe Farmer, Chief Evangelist, CSforALL”. “We appreciate their commitment and service to the wider education community.”
The JROTC-CS Demonstration Project supports the goals of the JROTC Cyber Training Act of 2019 (H .R. 3266 and Sen. 2154) and is authorized by Section 512 of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, which amended Section 2031(b)(3) of title 10, United States Code, to include instruction or activities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the JROTC program. At scale, this project has the potential to engage over 545K Junior ROTC cadets in computer science and cybersecurity education pathways, and build technology education capacity at over 3400 JROTC high schools across the nation, serving 4M students overall.
The JROTC-CS Demonstration Project is public-private partnership led by CSforALL in collaboration with the JROTC-CS Advisory Consortium.
Interested in learning more, visit https://www.csforall.org/projects_and_programs/jrotc/
The Air Force ROTC color guard stands at attention during the opening ceremony of the Dining Out and Military Ball.
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