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GSSM to host AI summer institute for K-12 teachers after $500,000 Google grant
Summary
The Governor's School for Science and Mathematics will use a Google grant to fund a three-year AI educator program, including an AI summer institute that will host 50 K-12 teachers (stipend, housing and meals provided) and a cohort of seven AI fellows who will develop curriculum and statewide resources.
The Governor's School for Science and Mathematics announced a Google-funded initiative to train K-12 teachers in artificial intelligence and data science.
President Danny Dorsel said the school received a three-year Google grant and outlined a two-part program: seven faculty members selected as AI fellows to develop curriculum and statewide expertise, and an AI summer institute to host 50 teachers with expenses and stipends covered. "These fellows are becoming really statewide experts in artificial intelligence and data science," said Jackie Weber, who described herself as recently appointed director of teacher development and is leading the project.
Weber said the initiative focuses on embedding AI skills into teachers' everyday content areas rather than delivering isolated AI lessons. The summer institute will last four days and aims to leave participants with classroom-ready lessons they can implement within a month. Participants will be grouped by grade band or content area to ensure sessions are applicable and collaborative.
Industry partners and nationally known educators are lined up to present. Weber named guest presenters from Amazon Web Services and Duke Energy and said national data-science educators will keynote sessions to demonstrate applied classroom approaches. Applications for the summer institute open March 2; the kickoff celebration will be held on campus March 7 as part of the Inside GSSM event.
The school plans to use the Google funding to run the program for three summers and to host 50 teachers for the first summer. Weber said the school will select participants to ensure broad geographic and grade-level representation across the state. "We're making a lot of partnerships with our industries around South Carolina," she said.
The program pairs the fellows' curriculum work with industry speakers and aims to strengthen teacher capacity to evaluate AI output, design prompts and teach data-literacy skills. The trustees were informed the initiative includes a public kickoff and follow-up resources to support classroom implementation.
