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Community and Collaboration in an All-female, Immersive Computer Science Program (Abstract Only)

Published: 17 February 2016 Publication History

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Girls Who Code is a national nonprofit that operates after-school and summer programs to engage female students with computer science with the goal of reaching gender parity in the field. The Girls Who Code teaching philosophy and curriculum is designed around four major components: (1) developing a breadth of technical and computational thinking skills, (2) building on students' prior interests, (3) providing authentic exposure to mentors and real computer science projects, and (4) cultivating a community-focused classroom. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected from more than 1,500 students that have participated, this work explores the impact of Girls Who Code's intervention and the value of building community for effective computer science education.

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    SIGCSE '16: Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education
    February 2016
    768 pages
    ISBN:9781450336857
    DOI:10.1145/2839509
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    1. computer science education
    2. gender gap
    3. girls who code
    4. informal education

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