Expanding Pathways for Educational Development and Information Technology Experiences (ExPEDITE)

“扩大教育发展和信息技术经验途径”（简称“加快”）项目通过加强当前的信息技术相关项目，制定和批准中学、社区学院和大学之间的衔接协议，为学生制定和实施全面的信息技术实习/指导计划，为西弗吉尼亚州中北部的学生提供向信息技术（IT）职业的顺利过渡。中学教师和大学教授，利用IT意识材料吸引和留住学生走上IT职业道路，并为大学教授和中学教师提供专业发展。迅达正在满足对科学和工程专业人员日益增长的IT劳动力需求，并改善学生和培养他们的教育工作者的技术教育。该团队包括科学研究所，公司（ISR），马里昂县学校系统（MCSS），费尔蒙特州立社区和技术学院（FSCTC）和费尔蒙特州立大学（FSU）。该项目是可复制的，有效地为中学和大专学生提供了学习IT技能的途径，同时使他们接触到更多的IT职业机会。智力优势：通过为下一代IT专业人士提供相关课程和实践经验，为他们进入不断变化的工作环境做好准备。在将学生从中学水平过渡到大学和进入IT劳动力方面，accelerate正在形成一种全国可复制的、全州范围内的卓越模式。更广泛的影响：通过行业实习，为中学生、中学教师、大学生和大学教授提供获得新的IT技能的机会。在整个中学和高等教育中，包括新成立的西弗吉尼亚州社区学院系统，都引入了“加快模式”，作为在整个西弗吉尼亚州扩大影响的一种手段。斯捷特可以成为这个国家的工作模式。

The Expanding Pathways for Educational Development and Information Technology Experiences (ExPEDITE) project is providing a smooth transition to an information technology (IT) career for students in North Central West Virginia by enhancing current IT related programs, developing and approving articulation agreements between secondary school, community college, and university, developing and implementing comprehensive IT internship/mentoring programs for students, secondary teachers and college professors, using IT awareness materials to attract and retain students to IT careers paths, and providing professional development for college professors and secondary school teachers. ExPEDITE is meeting the growing IT workforce demand for science and engineering professionals and improving the technology education of students and the educators who prepare them. The ExPEDITE team includes the Institute for Scientific Research, Inc. (ISR), the Marion County School System (MCSS), Fairmont State Community and Technical College (FSCTC), and Fairmont State University (FSU). The ExPEDITE project is reproducible and effectively provides pathways for secondary and post-secondary students to learn IT skills while exposing them to expanding IT career opportunities. Intellectual Merit: ExPEDITE is preparing the next generation of IT professionals to enter an ever-changing work environment by providing them with relevant programs and hands-on experience. ExPEDITE is resulting in a nationally replicable, statewide model of excellence in transitioning students from the secondary level through college and into the IT workforce. Broader Impacts: ExPEDITE is providing secondary students, secondary teachers, college students, and college professors with the opportunity to acquire new IT skills through industry internships. The ExPEDITE model is being introduced throughout secondary and higher education, including the newly formed West Virginia State Community College System, as a means to expand the impact throughout the state of West Virginia. ExPEDITE could serve as a working model for the nation.