Increasing high school girls' self confidence and awareness of CS through a positive summer experience

  • Authors:

  • Lori Pollock;Kathleen McCoy;Sandra Carberry;Namratha Hundigopal;Xiaoxin You

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper describes the design, implementation, and impact evaluation of a summer program designed to attract high school girls to entering an information technology field for their college major. Our main contributions include an analysis of immediate and longer term surveys from both the student participants and the female teaching assistants, curriculum and pedagogy highlights of the program, and lessons learned from the planning and implementation experiences.