Capstone Project Statement of Intent:

a) Goals of the project: To create a working curriculum and develop new, effective teaching methods for high school computer science courses.

b) Why is it important and why should we care:  It is important because it will attract more high school students to take computer science courses and expand their interest in the field. This is necessary because not many people are going to the computer science major in college. As a result of this, we have less computer science graduates, thus we have to outsource many of the high-paying, white-collar jobs to overseas.

c) How do these goals fit with your career objective: My major is computer science, and this research project very well relates to it. Doing this project will give me further insight about my career and field of computer science.

d) How does your project give back to society: My project, if implemented properly, will eventually increase the number of computer science graduates in the nation. If not, it will at least attract more high school students to this field and encourage them to take computer science courses.