2. Current State | Emerging Technologies Program

The opportunity, stated first

Jesuit built a physical Engineering & Robotics Lab for the mechanical world; the opportunity is to give the computational world the same physical, owned, on-campus home. The baseline below is mechanical/engineering, not computational/intelligence — and that whitespace is the program. One gap is total: real estate has no presence in the curriculum at all, not even adjacent to the finance/business courses already in use — see §5 for how that folds in, given the program architect's own practitioner background.

Engineering: 3-year Project Lead The Way program (since 2016–17), housed in the Engineering and Robotics Lab (opened 2019). Robotics: FIRST Robotics Team 3164 "Stealth Tigers" (founded 2010), competitive at regional level with one Worlds appearance; also FTC junior teams historically. Technology infrastructure: 1:1 iPad program since 2014. Academic culture: Strong AP program (76–84% pass rates over the last decade); "Advancing Academic Opportunities" is a pillar of the 2022 Strategic Plan — a governance hook this program can attach to.

Computer science & AI (verified against the Curriculum Guide): Intro CS (0.5 credit, sophomore Fine Arts/CS slot) and AP CS Principles on campus. All advanced computing — AP CS A, C++, JavaScript, Game Development — is outsourced to AVLI, the Jesuit network's virtual school. The school's only AI offering is "Understanding Artificial Intelligence: The Science and the Morality" — a half-credit, online, primarily asynchronous AVLI elective. AP CS A carries a 4.0 cumulative GPA gate (an internal placement policy, and among the most restrictive prerequisites in the catalog — see §4, now the top-priority fix).

2. Current State (Baseline)