We have begun to receive results from the May 2026 AP exams.  Though we await considerable data, even the partial data we have is sufficient to affirm the premise of the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Access Program—that is, there are promising students in every community who, if provided quality instruction and extensive supports, are capable of excelling academically, even in rigorous courses.

See the highlights from the Global Teaching Project’s Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program in our photo gallery! Students from 19 rural Mississippi high schools spent part of their summer at Mississippi State University preparing for challenging AP STEM courses through hands-on learning, collaboration, and unforgettable experiences. Browse the gallery to see these future STEM leaders in action.

The Global Teaching Project has achieved a key program milestone, successfully completing its 10th annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program.

Over 100 participants gathered at Mississippi State University for the residential program featuring immersive instruction in AP STEM courses that students will take through GTP in the 2026-2027 school year.  Students and teachers from 19 public high schools in underserved Mississippi communities joined accomplished educators from Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Yale, Harvard, and Georgia Tech, among other universities.

A Global Teaching Project partner for the past decade, Mississippi State University hosts the annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program on campus each summer. The program prepares high school students, especially those in rural and low-income school districts, for upcoming Advanced Placement coursework.

More than 80 high school students from rural school districts across the Magnolia State have gathered on Mississippi State’s campus this week for the Global Teaching Project’s 10th annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program.

The Global Teaching Project has launched its 10th year of expanding educational opportunity with its annual Advanced STEM Summer Preparatory Program at Mississippi State University. GTP’s Advanced STEM Access Program provides promising high school students in rural, high-poverty communities access to advanced science courses they need to achieve their full potential, but which their schools otherwise may not be able to offer, due to limited resources and a chronic, and worsening, shortage of qualified teachers. To date, GTP has served—free of charge—over 3,000 students at more than 50 Mississippi public high schools, and offered courses in AP Biology, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Physics 1, and AP …

This afternoon, Global Teaching Project high school students from rural Mississippi will take the AP Computer Science Principles exam.  Last week, their GTP classmates from across the state took exams for AP Biology, AP Physics 1, and AP Statistics. By doing so, each of those hundreds of GTP students earned a place among an elite group of students—both in Mississippi and nationwide—that chose to take on the challenge of rigorous AP Science courses and related exams. Far fewer than one percent of Mississippi high school students took exams in AP Biology, AP Computer Science Principles, AP Physics 1, or AP …

Yale University has highlighted the work of the Global Teaching Project as a leading example of how Yale and its graduates “contribute to and learn from communities nationwide”. Yale recently launched the “Impact of Yale Across America” series, which details how Yale alumni, faculty, and students are working alongside communities across the country to expand opportunity and address pressing challenges. The very first initiative spotlighted in the series is the Global Teaching Project’s work “Bringing AP classes to Mississippi’s most impoverished communities—for free.” The Global Teaching Project works with faculty, graduates, and current students from over three dozen of the nation’s top universities to …

Global Teaching Project CEO Matt Dolan interviewed on Good Things with Rebecca Turner and shares how GTP’s unique model delivers advanced STEM education to students who have historically been left out of the equation—especially in rural communities facing teacher shortages.

In a recent article, Yale University highlights the impact its graduates are making across all 50 states—and in Mississippi, it spotlights the work of alum Matt Dolan, CEO of the Global Teaching Project. Alongside Dolan, fellow Yale graduates Kiran Ghia, Chief Strategy Advisor, and Oso Ifesinachukwu, Director of Outreach and Student Engagement, help lead the organization’s mission. They’re joined by a network of Yale students serving as teaching assistants who support programming year-round, including the annual Advanced STEM Program hosted at Jackson State University. Together, they’re expanding access to AP STEM courses in some of Mississippi’s most underserved communities—offering rigorous …

Achievement gaps persist, and students in many high-poverty rural districts still lack access to rigorous STEM courses.

Through the Advanced STEM Access Program, the Global Teaching Project brings AP science and technology courses to schools that otherwise could not offer them. In many of Mississippi’s most impoverished districts, these are the only AP courses available.

And the results are powerful: students in GTP schools are earning some of the highest AP scores in the state in subjects like Biology, Physics, and Computer Science.

Opportunity matters. And access changes outcomes.

Global Teaching Project has added to its outstanding roster of 2025-26 Teaching Assistants so that each of GTP’s growing number of AP STEM classes continues to have its own dedicated tutor. The current roster of Teaching Assistants includes over 50 STEM majors and recent graduates from leading universities around the country—including Yale, Harvard, University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Howard, Virginia Tech, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, University of Mississippi, University of North Caroina, and University of Wisconsin, among others. Teaching Assistants are a key component of GTP’s blended instructional model, and work with AP STEM classes both in-person and virtually: Teaching Assistants conduct regular tutoring sessions—typically twice weekly—via videoconference during the …