Help Improve Our Program

Community support is critical to the success of any school program, so everyone here at Sandlapper is interested in developing partnerships with those in our community that are interested in taking computer science to the next level for our students. We have a number of ways for you to support our program with your service.

We are a new magnet program in Richland School District Two. We are working to prepare our more than 600 students for work, life and citizenship by integrating computer science coding skills into the daily classroom experience. Our focus is to emphasize 21^st century skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity so that our students can thrive in the local, national and world high economy by preparing them for the high growth and high demand jobs.

We are writing to you because the Computer Science Immersion School is seeking partnerships with local businesses and schools to provide mentoring and leadership experience opportunities for some of our students. We are looking for partners to help us in the following ways:

• One, to provide regular one-to-one mentoring for students,
• Two, to adopt a classroom through frequent “digital hangouts,”
• Three, to share work experiences during Computer Science Education Week the week of Dec. 9-13^th ,and/ or
• Four, to serve on our school’s Computer Science Advisory Council, which will meet 3-4 times a year.  

We would be appreciative of the opportunity to learn more about computer science through your service at our school. In return, we would be happy to add you to our list of “Computer Science Partners.” This would mean we would promote your business as one who supports our efforts by featuring you name and logo in an office display, school newsletters, and our school website.

We hope you see the value of this experience which will allow your business to build the computer science knowledge base of the community, but also individuals that contribute will benefit from a sense of empowerment through positive interactions with our students.

Additionally, we will be hosting three “Epic Build” Computer Science events this year. We would love for you to attend any or all of the events. Our events are scheduled for the following dates: Nov. 1^st, Jan. 31^st, and April 24^th.

If you wish to discuss any of these proposals further, I can be contacted at the school during business hours, or by email at tswick@richland2.org.