AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study

A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students' ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data. In the early 2010s, nearly every STEM -savvy college-bound kid heard the same advice: Learn to code . Python was the new Latin. Computer science was the ticket to a stable, well-paid, future-proof life.