The Universal Schools has a new technology curriculum vertically aligned to ensure that students leave with strong technology skills. All students are given access to devices as part of our 1:1 technology program and receive dedicated classes from the elementary school on ensure a strong technological proficiency. Starting this year, coding has been taught from third grade up.
In High School students are given the option to take advanced technology courses using industry standard tools.
Current Advanced Technology Courses
Game Design
Students use an events based HTML 5 game engine to create multi-platform browser based games. In addition to learning how to program their game logic, students also learn to find legal art and sound assets and learn to edit them to suit their needs.
Robotics
Students design and build robots and program them to accomplish a series of different tasks.
Digital Editing
Students use industry standard tools to create high quality digital media projects. Students cover print design, photo editing, and video editing.
App Design
Students are given the opportunity to work with the google-apps-scripts api to design apps and add-ons that work inside the google software suite they use within their everyday experience. The google-scripts-api is a genuine Object Oriented Programming environment with an accompanying IDE that is designed both to function as a shell script as well as give organizations and companies the ability to quickly create their own apps to suit their needs. At the end of the course students are expected to be able to create an application or add-on that solves a genuine need.