Company Profile

Company Description:

The mission of the DeKalb Agriculture  Technology and Environment, Inc. (D.A.T.E.) is to educate a student population about the essential needs to consider environmental, agricultural, and technological ramifications to improve conditions and other business decisions; via a hands-on, community-oriented instructional curriculum. This STEAM Academy is unique in that it is the only academy in Georgia, in the Southeastern Region, and even in the USA, to have a Foci approach to Environmental, Agricultural, and Technological Sciences for our model of K-8 scholars.
The school’s mission supports the legislative intent to increase student achievement though academic and organizational innovation of its curriculum by linking Georgia’s content standards with in depth information about agriculture, technology, and the environment to demonstrate and improve the effectiveness of education overall, boost enthusiasm for learning, decrease discipline and attendance problems, and produce students capable of making real-world decisions, which necessarily implicate dwindling environmental resources.