Paper Info
Title
Girls on the go: a CS summer camp to attract and inspire female high school students
Abstract
In this paper, we describe our experience running "Girls on the Go: The Mobile Computing College Experience." We decided to do a residential summer camp for HS-age girls to achieve two goals: to encourage our campers to attend college and to interest them in computer science as a possible career option. We centered the camp around the design of a zoo-themed research tool where campers designed a mobile application to be used by researchers to document and study animal behavior. Post-camp surveys gave statistically significant results indicating that the camp increased the girls' confidence in performing computer science and understanding what computer scientists did.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2445196.2445376
SIGCSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile computing college experience,hs-age girl,female high school student,possible career option,cs summer camp,residential summer camp,significant result,mobile application,computer science,study animal behavior,computer scientist,post-camp survey
Mobile computing,Computer science,Animal behavior,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.51
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janet E. Burge117226.51
Gerald C. Gannod230135.86
Maureen Doyle3578.43
Karen C. Davis424739.78