YEAH 🎉!!!!! We're celebrating Gary Andersen, a Game On by Urban Arts Teacher named a Finalist for NC
#CTE #TeacheroftheYear 🏆
We are proud to celebrate our outstanding
#GameOn by Urban Arts teachers. One of those incredible teachers is Gary Andersen, Computer Science teacher at
@ALBrownHS in Kannapolis, NC, who was named a finalist for the NCCAT 2026 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Career & Technical Education Teacher of the Year Award. Gary was one of 23 exceptional educators selected from across North Carolina for this distinction.
The award celebrates
#CTEteachers who exemplify innovation, leadership, and dedication to preparing students for future careers, and Gary has transformed what it means to teach
#computerscience and
#gamedevelopment in a high school CTE setting. As he puts it, “Computer science is not knowing how to do computer science. It’s knowing how to use computer science to figure something out.”
Gary builds a space where students take the lead, experiment freely, and learn as much from what breaks as from what works. “I find my students learn more when they make mistakes,” he says. “I learn more when I make mistakes. So I love making mistakes.”
Read all about Gary here ➡️
urbanarts.org/2026/06/10/gar…
Interested in joining the community of Game On teachers? They're the best of the best, moving the needle in CS education. Plus, the curriculum is free this year!
urbanarts.org/game-on/
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