Design study · Residential public STEM school · South Carolina
Where the state's most curious students go all in
A redesign and content-management concept for a residential public STEM school that runs four genuinely different programs out of one institution.
Concept only, prepared for a State of South Carolina SFAA procurement. Facts come from the school's published site; this is not the official GSSM website.
- School website design
- Program navigation
- Events calendar
- Staff CMS
- Search
- Accessibility
SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics — open the working site
Case study overview
The problem
A residential high school that also runs an online program, summer camps, and statewide outreach is four admissions funnels wearing one brand. A family looking at summer camps and a family considering moving their child into residential enrollment need almost nothing in common, and a single generic prospective-student path serves neither. Behind that, the recurring failure is editorial: a school communications office with no realistic way to keep four program calendars current.
The approach
Four doors open the site — Residential High School, Online Program, GoSciTech summer camps, and Outreach and STEM opportunities — so each audience self-selects immediately rather than working through a shared funnel. Because the durable problem is maintenance rather than layout, the concept includes a CMS demonstration built the way the real one would be built, showing staff exactly how they would publish news, events, and program updates. A coming-up calendar and news surface keep the school's real activity visible, which for a school of this kind is the strongest recruiting material it has.
The result
Ten routes covering academics, admissions, calendar, news, portals, contact, search, accessibility, and a working CMS demonstration.
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