Project Summary

While I was a student at Cedar High School, I had the

ambition of going forward and learning about
computers and making programs on computers.
However, my high school lacked the technological
prominence most other schools did. Therefore, my
goal was to help with the computer programming
class that was already on campus in addition to
instilling the necessity of technological fluency in the
modern world.
I met with Michelle Taylor, the teacher for the class,
and we began formulating ideas and experimenting
with new ways of teaching the students.
Project Highlights
Although I didn't expect every student to suddenly
become interested in computers all at once, I began to
see a few students that appreciated both the effort I
was making to show them skills that are extremely
prominent in their lives as well as some of the
brilliant minds that were about to enter the working
world. The best part about my project was one day
when class had finished. A couple of students had
come before me and personally said that having me
there has been one of the best classes they've ever
had.
From My Journal
Felt pretty nervous going into class today as a
teacher rather than a student. I spent the time going
over and reviewing my lecture for today, but it just
feels weird being an academic teacher rather than a
student.
























High School Technology Education
Trevor Forsyth
Community Engagement Center
Fall 2014
Before anyone can begin to program computers, a lot of
time must be spent just learning the theory of how an
application can be incorporated into a concept. In this
image, I'm showing students division, but also a concept
known as modulus division which is saving the
remainder of a division.
After theory about a concept, comes application of the
concept into code. In this image, I'm showing the
students how to do single digit division and single digit
modulus division in Java, a programming language.