Girls Embrace Technology: A Summer Internship for High School Girls
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -12 11 - High School Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing Diversity Electrical Engineering Engineering Diversity General Engineering, Engineering Science Information Systems Information Technology |
| Special Topic(s): |
Women and Information Technology Technology and Society |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - Educational Research Paper |
| Media Type: |
Audio |
| Author(s): |
B. Louie Derek Reamon Jackie Sullivan |
| Description: | High school girls explore their potential for a career in engineering and technology through developing educational interactive multimedia software during a six-week summer internship. "Techno-neutral" girls - those who do not envision themselves pursuing a career in high-tech, yet have the academic preparedness, curiosity and commitment to complete the internship and produce a successful multimedia product - are recruited. The internship experience makes information technology accessible and attractive to the girls via developing creative, hands-on educational software for younger children. The girls develop technical skills in graphic design, user interface development, visual programming, digital image manipulation, multimedia authoring and user testing. The girls were as impacted by the environmental and cultural conditions of the internship - including working in teams - as they were by the opportunity to learn new technological tools. The internship helped the girls become aware that a technology-based career can be creative and fun while serving the needs of society. |
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| Keywords: | multimedia software information technology gendder equity computer science outreach program unerrepresented pipeline workshop mentor research |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
Academic Achievement (i) Engage in life-long learning Engagement Motivation |
| Intervention(s): |
Student community |
| Use of Resource: |
Scholarly publication |
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Medium |
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| Publication Date: | November 2003 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1263375 |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
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