Our Second Teachers’ Workshop
On September 13, 2024, the Technology Ambassadors Program (TAP) at Georgia Gwinnett College’s School of Science and Technology (SST) proudly hosted its Second Teachers Technology Workshop — an inspiring and hands-on day dedicated to K–12 educators from across the region.
This year’s workshop focused on empowering teachers with fun, creative, and accessible ways to bring programming and algorithmic thinking into their classrooms. By blending interactive learning with real-world classroom strategies, TAP continues its mission of supporting teachers as they help students build the foundational skills of tomorrow’s tech leaders.
We are deeply grateful for the enthusiastic support from Gwinnett County Public Schools and NGF. Special thanks to Sallie Holloway, Jessica King Holden, Laura Gray, and Amy Sol for championing this event and helping make it a success.
Behind the scenes, the workshop came to life thanks to the incredible efforts of our dedicated TAP faculty and staff. A heartfelt thank-you to Xin Xu, Cindy Robertson, Tirza Leader, Cengiz Gunay, Wei Jin, and our phenomenal student assistants: Ammar Mehicevic, Elijah Santiago, Trung Dao, Carina George, Anh Tang, Julissa Valdez-Ramos, and Sean Nolan — your passion and dedication truly shone.
We also extend appreciation to Charles Pibel, Joseph Ametepe, and the SST office staff for their instrumental support in organizing the event.
Most importantly, we thank the 22 amazing teachers who joined us. Your curiosity, energy, and commitment to your students made this workshop not just productive, but inspiring.
Finally, a big thank-you to our generous sponsor, the National Science Foundation (NSF), for making this experience possible.
✨ Mark your calendars — we’ll be back in March 2025 with even more opportunities to connect, create, and code together. Stay tuned!
Outreach Projects Included
Planimals
Techs:
Make coding entertaining with simplifying programming concepts while learning how to program a resou...
Ball Is Life
Techs:
Teaches programming fundamentals such as for loops, functions, variables in a hands on way using Sph...
Drone Reality
Techs:
Using CoDrones, the aim of this project is to teach others about basic programming concepts through ...
Alien Invaders
Techs:
Developing a simple game in Processing inspired from the Japanese 1978 fixed shooter video game whil...
Space Mechanic
Techs:
Using Makey Makey and Scratch the fundamental programming concepts such as variables, if-else statem...
Faculty Facilitators
Students
Anh Tang
Data Science & Analytics student, part of the TAP class in Spring 2024. I worked on a project called Space Mechanic that taught fundamental programming concepts along with my two group members Juli an...
Elijah Santiago
A dedicated programmer and TAP student intern with a strong focus on improving and optimizing projects. Skilled in developing and refining applications, with experience in GDScript, Python, and Java. ...
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