The following courses are available from Mr. Stroop at Pathways Academy of Technology & Design. IST students from E.C. Goodwin Technical High School may also participate.
As our world becomes increasingly dependent on technology, it is essential that we help students learn how to behave safely and ethically online. This course prepares students with crucial skills to be responsible citizens in a digital future.
Intro to Cybersecurity is designed to introduce students to cybersecurity concepts and inspire interest in cybersecurity careers. This course does not require any prerequisite knowledge in cybersecurity or networking for either the student or teacher.
The focus of instruction will include the implementation and monitoring of security on network and computer systems. Students will investigate strategies to identify and protect against security threats such as malicious actors, eavesdropping, and network attacks. The basics of encryption and logical reasoning will be explored. Hands-on labs in the CYBER.ORG Range provide practice in the configuration and mitigation of system vulnerabilities. Each unit integrates current events and related cyber ethics and law.
In this course, students learn about program design, documentation, formal debugging and testing. The students will use the Python programming language as they work on various small projects. The culminating project is a computer game they will code from scratch.
This course teaches the fundamentals of computer programming as well as some advanced features of the Python 3 language. By the end of this course, students build a simple console-based game and learn material equivalent to a semester college introductory Python course.
In cooperation with our partner Infobip, we developed this program to turn classrooms into AI laboratories, where students design and develop a chatbot. Students will build their own chatbots to guide visitors to their school website to specific functions. Students will develop soft skills such as critical thinking, collaborative learning, creativity, innovation, and problem-solving through the project.
This course teaches HTML programming for web page creation, from the history of the World Wide Web to formatting text and lists, and inserting images and tables on web pages. Students will create model web pages and pages of their own design, all demonstrating proper coding techniques. All students will acquire programming skills applicable to many other courses and capable of creating a web page for any other class project.
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours is a well-organized, clearly written, and generously illustrated tutorial that teaches beginners how to quickly create great-looking web pages using HTML5 and CSS3.
With a practical, jargon-free focus on quickly getting web pages created and published to the web, the book's 24 one-hour lessons carefully guide the reader through each step involved in creating, enhancing, and maintaining web sites of all types and sizes.
The ninth edition of Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours brings the entire book in line with the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications and capabilities and includes fresh material and examples that take full advantage of the book's full-color layout and design.
This is a project-based course that teaches students how to build their own web pages. Students will learn the languages HTML and CSS, and will create their own live homepages to serve as portfolios of their creations. Students will finish this course with tangible, professional, mobile responsive websites.
Programmers and engineers make the tool, designers make the tool look attractive, and psychologists make sure the tool is useful. Ultimately, customers will reward the makers that can do all three well, but the marketplace is a painful time to discover if the product will be successful. It is better to know, while the tool is being built, what the customers want than to find out afterwards. Successful companies always include designers and psychologists in their product development. There are clever ways to make decisions and evaluate concepts while in the planning stages. Skilled professionals to help avoid costly mistakes are highly desirable. This course is about the designers' principles and psychologists' methods so that students can go on to careers in technology development as more than just programmers and engineers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Introduction to Game Development with platforms of Scratch, FlowLab IO, and the like.
Cyber security training brought to life through real-world hacking challenges and puzzles.
The Unity game engine is an incredibly powerful and popular choice for professional and amatueru game developers alike. The textbook has been written to get readers up to speed and working in Unity as fast as possible (about 24 hours to be exact) while covering fundamental principles of game development.
TestOut Office Pro provides an innovative and effective way to practice using Microsoft Office applications and learn the basics of computer technology. Simulated labs help students acquire and retain the basic skills they need to become proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook.
Preparation for the PSAT and SAT exams offered by Goodwin Tech.
The NFTE World Series of Innovation (WSI) is a global innovation challenge that invites young entrepreneurs to think big and come up with ideas for addressing some of the most critical issues facing humanity today: the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UN Sustainable Development Goals represent some of the most serious challenges facing humanity today. It's vital that innovators and entrepreneurs think about how society can meet the Global Goals. NFTE believes that with all the technological and educational tools available today, young innovators and entrepreneurs may be better positioned to solve these challenges than any previous generation has been.
