The focus of the ESC4Alabama partnership is to provide high school students across Alabama with experiences in authentic Computer Science through the establishment of the stand-alone course "Exploring Computer Science (ECS)". The ECS course has been introduced state-wide, in 72 predominantly African-American high schools from mainly rural economically distressed communities. The partnership is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE).  

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With attention to culturally relevant Computer Science experiences. ECS is broadening the participating in computing in Alabama. 

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Students are Learning the following exciting topics in the ECS course:

• Human Computer Interaction 

• Problem solving 

• Web design 

• Introduction to programming 

• Computing and data analysis

• Robotics