COMPUTER SCIENCE PATHWAY

This pathway combines coding, robotics, and artificial intelligence—including the chance to work on autonomous vehicles from the MIT School of Engineering. Along the way, youth learn how to build and program drones, design intelligent systems, and explore real-world applications of machine learning. Through hands-on projects and team challenges, youth gain the technical skills and problem-solving mindsets needed to thrive in fields like software engineering, robotics, and AI development.

  • Earn the Intro to Java certificate

  • Earn 6 college credits in college-level computer science + math

  • Earn Google Career Certificates

  • Create a digital portfolio to apply to college + career

Flowchart illustrating a computer science pathway including summer and fall courses, with beginner topics like intro to Java and robotics, followed by advanced courses such as Computer Science I and Precalculus, with arrows indicating progression.
DroneBlocks logo featuring a drone illustration and text 'DRONE BLOCKS'
Google logo with multicolored letters on a white background.
Logo for Beaver Works, Lincoln Laboratory, School of Engineering at MIT
Text reading 'Outlier.org' in black on a white background.
  • Hands working with electronic circuit modules, green and red LED lights glowing, wires connected to a small circuit board.
  • A young man working on an electronic robot on a white table, in a classroom or lab setting.
  • A woman standing near a screen presenting to a classroom of students. The screen displays a slide titled 'Graduating College' with an illustration and logos. Students are seated at tables, listening and taking notes, with laptops, water bottles, and notebooks on the tables.
  • A person working on a laptop at a cluttered table with notebooks, sticky notes, pens, and other people using laptops in the background.
  • A group of young people in a classroom, some wearing headphones, sitting around a table with a teacher or facilitator standing nearby. The background features posters and drawings on the wall.
  • A person wearing a black T-shirt with a cartoon skeleton design is holding a robotics project with a transparent body, multiple wires, circuit boards, and LED lights.
  • A classroom scene with students and a teacher around a table. The teacher is holding a printed image of a tiger in a night forest scene. A large screen displays the same image and some text. The table has laptops, a water bottle, and a small robot.
  • Group of young students gathered around a racetrack and 3D printers in a classroom or workshop setting, possibly for a robotics or engineering project.