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Young women in computing: lessons learned from an educational & outreach program

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Enrico Pontelli,

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SIGCSE '09: Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1508865.1509042

Published: 04 March 2009 Publication History

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This paper describes the Young Women in Computing program, an ongoing outreach program in Computer Science at New Mexico State University (NMSU). Features of the program include summer camps and academic year activities, computing in context, peer mentoring, and role models. The main goal is to increase interest in computing among female high school students. The paper discusses lessons learned from three years of experience with the program.

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