Outreach-in-a-Box: Discovering IT
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -12 11 - High School Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing Diversity Information Systems Information Technology Software Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
Engineering for Girls BPC Promising Practices |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Community - General |
| Media Type: |
Audio |
| Author(s): |
Organization:NCWIT |
| Description: | Are you ready to meet and inspire the next generation of computing innovators? We've made it easy for you to help introduce middle-school students to the world of computing. Professionals in IT can provide a terrific service to their community through youth education. Outreach-in-a-Box includes everything you need to prepare for and deliver an engaging class presentation at a local middle school - including a PowerPoint presentation, hands-on robotics activity, and program guide for how to use the materials. This is a program to strengthen and diversify the IT pipeline though outreach to middle schools. Using the box, IT professionals customize and deliver a classroom presentation and engage youth in hands-on activities that inspire and inform them about opportunities in IT. |
| Rating: | No Rating |
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| Keywords: | NCWIT programs-in-a-box recruitment outreach role model gender equity key research promising practices |
| Is Component of: |
NCWIT's Programs-in-a-Box BPC-A: National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
Change in Attitude Confidence Motivation Positive Attitude |
| Intervention(s): |
Active learning |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | May 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://ncwit.org/outreach |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
ACM Women in Computing
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