Mountain Home High School Career Academies were rewarded this week for having Arkansas’s highest percentage of students enrolled in a computer science course in a school with at least 1,000 students. The school was presented a prize of $7,500 during the Computer Science for Arkansas conference in Little Rock.
The money will be used to fund additional learning opportunities and supplies for the high school’s computer science classrooms. In the upcoming year, Mountain Home will bring in Skipper Thurman as an additional computer science instructor. Thurman is a former science teacher, and he says the computer science field is rapidly expanding.
Mountain Home School Superintendent Dr. Jake Long says he sees computer science education as a way to boost economic growth and keep skilled workers in the Twin Lakes Area.
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