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What is the AICE program?

What is the AICE program?. • Affiliated with the University of Cambridge • Works in partnership with educators worldwide, including 25 national governments • Listed in the Florida Course Code Directories as college course equivalencies. Initial Course Offerings. • Thinking Skills

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What is the AICE program?

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  1. What is the AICE program? • Affiliated with the University of Cambridge • Works in partnership with educators worldwide, including 25 national governments • Listed in the Florida Course Code Directories as college course equivalencies

  2. Initial Course Offerings •Thinking Skills •General Paper

  3. Benefits of AICE courses • Develops oral, practical and thinking skills, with an emphasis on the application of skills, knowledge and understanding, as well as the acquisition of knowledge • The use of initiative and creativity in solving problems • An investigative approach to learning • Encourages students to undertake individual projects and to work as part of a team • Promotes international understanding

  4. Prepares students for higher education and for a wide range of careers, including law, scientific research, social science, journalism, medicine, business, accounting and engineering • Encourages free and open debate, critical and investigative thinking, as well as informed and disciplined reasoning • Enables students to approach their other subjects with an improved ability to understand, analyze and resolve problems Benefits of the Thinking Skills course

  5. Selection criteria • FCAT Scores • Cumulative GPA • Attendance • Conduct/Discipline

  6. At the University of Florida, the average GPA at the end of their freshman year, was highest with students from the AICE program. 3.46 CAMBRIDGE AICE 3.12 ADVANCED PLACEMENT 3.10 INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE 2.75 DUAL ENROLLMENT 2.63 REGULAR HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

  7. CAMBRIDGE AICE CLASSES RECOGNIZED BY OVER 400 COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES Amherst Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Duke Georgetown Georgia Tech Harvard John Hopkins MIT Northwestern Princeton Rice Stanford University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago University of Florida University of Michigan University of North Carolina University of Pennsylvania ALL Florida Colleges & Universities YouTube: Cambridge Programmes and Qualifications Cambridge Overview Thinking Skills General Paper

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