Benjamin is a former Computer Science / Business Education teacher with eight years of classroom experience at the middle and high school levels. He earned his masters of Instructional Technology from The University of North Carolina Charlotte. Before joining the South Carolina Department of Education, he was a Python Programming PLC Lead for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The journey into Computer Science was an unexpected one for Benjamin, but it was the start of something great. He looks forward to working with the South Carolina Computer Science Community to Broaden Computer Science participation across the great State of South Carolina.