Activities to attract high school girls to computer science

Authors:
Susan H. Rodger;Ellen L. Walker
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina;Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
Venue:
SIGCSE '96 Proceedings of the twenty-seventh SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1996

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Abstract

We present several activities used in the two-week PipeLINK summer program for high school girls. These hands-on activities and interactive talks, presented mostly by female faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students, showed the girls the wide range of opportunities in the field of computer science