For the 2022 competition, five high school students were named grand prize winners, each receiving a $5,000 scholarship or grant to start a business. A group of five teachers were also chosen to receive $1,000 each for going above and beyond in their instruction.

The research project, called “Collaborative Research Broadening Participation of Latinx Students in Computer Science by Integrating Culturally Relevant Computational Music Practices,” is part of a $2.9 million National Science Foundation grant the two institutions received in 2020 for the four-year study that takes place simultaneously in Georgia and Puerto Rico schools.

In his first year at Georgia Tech, Daniel Webber had the opportunity to engage with
middle and high school students through two unique pre-teaching internships made possible through existing partnerships created by the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC).