Arty Smith has more than 30 years of experience working with high school and college students and holds a Distinguished Teaching Chair at Kent Denver School, where he teaches AP Statistics and two electives in Data Science. A national leader in modernising the maths curriculum, he has presented extensively on integrating data, statistics and AI into the classroom. As a fellow in 50CAN’s inaugural
Data Science Fellowship, Arty is part of a national network focused on advancing K–12 maths and data education. He also serves as an Academic Ambassador for Tableau and a spokesperson for Just Equations. Before retiring from coaching, he led the Sun Devils boys’ soccer team to five State Championships, earned Colorado Coach of the Year honours eight times and was a three-time finalist for National Coach of the Year. Arty is also the founder of the Gambling Awareness Initiative, a data- driven programme designed to educate students, parents and educators about the risks of sports gambling. His work focuses on youth gambling prevention, sports betting awareness and interactive presentations that use data and probability to help students make more informed decisions around risk.
ARTY SMITH Founder, Gambling Aware- ness Initiative