Try/CATCH - a CS outreach event organized by female university students for female high school students: a positive experience for all the parts involved

Authors:
Chia Q. Wang;Carmen Tang;Liyang Zhang;Diana Cukierman
Affiliations:
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada;Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Try/CATCH (Computing and Technology Conference for Her) is a computing science female high school outreach event, which is run and organized almost exclusively by graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Computing science at Simon Fraser University. In this paper we describe the Try/CATCH event, including main activities that took place during the event and how this event started and evolved to its current version. We also analyze how Try/CATCH 2011 was perceived and experienced by the high school student participants as well as the university student organizers, based on postworkshop self-perception surveys and interviews. Results obtained so far are very encouraging, indicating a positive influence on the student participants and the event organizers.