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An ACM-W literature review on women in computing
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin - Women and Computing
Benefits of a CS0 course in liberal arts colleges
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Opportunities for women in IT security
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Structure, scoring and purpose of computing competitions
Informatics in education
Alice, middle schoolers & the imaginary worlds camps
Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Broadening participation in computing: issues and challenges
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Forging connections between life and class using reading assignments: a case study
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Girls, computer science, and games
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Representation of women in CS: how do we measure a program's success?
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Gr8 designs for Gr8 girls: a middle-school program and its evaluation
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Young women in computing: lessons learned from an educational & outreach program
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Braided teaching in secondary CS education: contexts, continuity, and the role of programming
Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Attitudes of sixth form female students toward the IT field
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Computer-game construction: A gender-neutral attractor to Computing Science
Computers & Education
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
ACM Inroads
Design and evaluation of a braided teaching course in sixth grade computer science education
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Reflections on outreach programs in CS classes: learning objectives for "unplugged" activities
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Reshaping the image of computer science in only fifteen minutes (of class) a week
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
On plugging "unplugged" into CS classes
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Girls on the go: a CS summer camp to attract and inspire female high school students
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Efficient egg drop contests: how middle school girls think about algorithmic efficiency
Proceedings of the ninth annual international ACM conference on International computing education research
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Declining female enrollment in undergraduate Computer Science programs is a serious problem. Part of the solution lies in retaining more of the female students currently enrolled; even more important, however, is increasing initial enrollment. Many believe lack of interest to be rooted in stereotypes of computer science formed early in high school: that it is a boring subject, devoid of interesting applications and stimulating only to 'geeks'. To attract high school females to CS, and to determine whether early exposure to the interesting breadth of CS and its applications might ameliorate such attitudes, a week-long Computer Science Seminar for Grade 9 and 10 girls was held at the University of Waterloo. The seminar consisted of lectures, labs and activities chosen to demonstrate the breadth of CS and to dispel the negative stereotypes. Pre- and post-seminar surveys indicate a substantial increase in interest, translating directly into increased desire to take high school CS courses.