The Future of IT: The Students of Tomorrow

The School Community

Originally established in 1926, Crooms Academy is a pillar of the Historic Goldsboro and Sanford communities. The academy’s first principal and founder, Joseph Crooms along with his wife Wealthy Crooms donated over 17 acres of their own property to Seminole County to build the school, providing African-American secondary students the opportunity to study the Arts and Sciences for the first time in Central Florida.

Crooms Academy of Information Technology is now a member of the National Academy Foundation and has been recognized as a Distinguished Academy for eight consecutive years, NAF’s highest honor. As a member of the NAF network, Crooms provides students multiple opportunities to connect with our partners in industry through job shadowing, internships, and our showcase event, the Seminole County TechFest held right here at Crooms each Spring. In addition, Crooms AOIT also boasts the highest rating from Magnet Schools of America, recognized as a Merit School of Excellence.

Crooms AOIT is Seminole County Public School’s only dedicated magnet high school. All students who reside in Seminole County and successfully complete the 8th grade may apply for admission. Students must submit the High School Magnet Program Application through the SCPS Student Assignment and Program Access Department and be chosen in the random selection process. The size of the campus allows for the capacity of approximately 700 students. The school offers a well‐rounded high school experience with a rigorous academic program and technology focused coursework in the areas of multimedia design technology, computer programming, and network systems technology. Crooms’ students benefit from a small school environment and individualized attention, and opportunities to earn college credits through the Dual Enrollment program at Seminole State College of Florida, Advanced Placement coursework, and Career Pathways. In partnership with Seminole State College, Crooms Academy of IT offers a pathway allowing students to earn their Associate of Arts degree while earning their high school diploma.

Crooms offers a full menu of athletic programs to include baseball, basketball, volleyball, soccer, track, cross-country, bowling, golf, and swimming. Our extra-curricular opportunities include Business Professionals of America, National Honor Society, SECME, Mu Alpha Theta, Academic Team, Spanish National Honor Society, Beta Club, Sanford Mayor’s Youth Council, Drama Club, and of course the ever popular CroomsCon (formerly known as LANfest) among many others.

Faculty

Crooms Academy of Information Technology has three administrators, three school counselors, a career specialist, two network specialists, an instructional coach, and 35 certified teachers. Over half the staff holds advanced degrees and our full-time teachers and administrators have an average of over 16 years of experience. Our student to teacher ratio is 20:1. The faculty and staff pride themselves on providing differentiated instruction and social-emotional support based on each student’s individual needs.

App Privacy

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which the Crooms Academy of Information Technology (CAoIT) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User” or “You”) and applies to the Crooms TechFest application located at www.croomstechfest.org. In this Privacy Policy, the terms “CAoIT” “we,” and “us” refers to the Crooms Academy of Information Technology a public magnet high school for Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS). This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites, mobile applications, and services that are owned and operated by third parties or other websites owned by CAoIT or SCPS.

This application is currently designed for informational purposes and does not collect user data. This application will not collect personal identification information from Users unless you are linked to a third party website to take a survey or use a feedback link. We do not collect information automatically. We currently do not collect the following from you as a user: location information, web browser cookies, and device and usage information.

• Information you give us will only be collected via a response survey or feedback link.
• If you send us collected information we may use this information
• to run and operate our application
• to display content on the application correctly
• to improve customer service
• to respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently
• to personalize user experience
• to improve our application
• to improve our products and services.
• to send periodic emails
• to respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

We do not sell, trade, or rent Your personal identification information to others. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our application, or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys.

Users may find other content on our application that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our application. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

We have the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the information we collect during the festival. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications. Your continued use of the App acts as your acceptance to our updated privacy policy.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using any of our Apps, you signify your acceptance to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Apps. Your continued use of our App following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of our App, or your dealings with any of our App, please contact us at sanchejm1@myscps.us.

This document was last updated on March 4th, 2022

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