First Gator Computing Program a Success

June 19, 2017

The Gator Computing Program (GCP) wrapped up on June 16 with a Symposium featuring the participants’ project presentations. The GCP students, ninth and tenth graders from nine counties throughout Florida, spent 10 days on campus visiting research labs, computational facilities, and several UF Centers and Institutes. The GCP students also got to hear lectures from leading science and humanities faculty and take programming lessons in Arduino, MATLAB, Python, and Unity software.

● The Gator Computing Program symposium event video is online and open to anyone (no GatorLink account required)

● This Gator Computing Program Twitter Moment collects all GCP Tweets by UFIT and CPET staff

Vice President and CIO Elias Eldayrie told Symposium attendees how happy he was that the Gator Computing Program has been launched, and said it would definitely be offered again. For information on this or other UF programs available to high school students, visit the Center for Precollegiate Education and Training website.