Virtual Outreach: Lessons from a Coding Club's Response to COVID-19
Virtual Outreach: Lessons from a Coding Club's Response to COVID-19
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虚拟外展：编码俱乐部应对 COVID-19 的经验教训
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10.1145/3408877.3432559
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2021
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L. Dillon
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Andrew McDonald;L. Dillon
密歇根州立大学（MSU）的本科生在密歇根州立大学校园内开设了三个春季学期的斯巴达编程女孩（SGWC）俱乐部。SGWC面向6 -12年级的女生，旨在(1)向参与者介绍计算机的基础知识，(2)将计算机与现代生活联系起来，(3)提高参与者对计算机的信心和态度，(4)营造一个包容、支持和欢迎的学习环境。为了实现这些目标，密歇根州立大学的学生充当同伴导师，指导参与者进行主动学习、协作学习、基于项目的学习和与文化相关的计算活动。由于2019冠状病毒病大流行，SGWC在2020年春季会议的前五次面对面会议后被迫突然过渡到虚拟会议。密歇根州公立学校关闭后，俱乐部出席率立即下降了约50%。但参加第一次虚拟游戏的玩家留存率和士气都很高。此外，完成SGWC的学生及其父母的反馈表明，他们对SGWC的虚拟适应总体上感到满意，并支持它成功地实现了目标。本文重点介绍了SGWC向虚拟格式过渡过程中总结的经验教训。我们的目标是为未来计算机科学家的多样化和发展提供一个校外编码俱乐部在大流行后的作用的愿景。
Undergraduate students at Michigan State University (MSU) have offered Spartan Girls Who Code (SGWC) clubs on the MSU campus for three spring semesters. Marketed to 6th-12th graders who identify as female, SGWC aims to (1) introduce participants to the fundamentals of computing, (2) contextualize computing in modern life, (3) improve participants' confidence and attitudes toward computing, and (4) foster an inclusive, supportive, and welcoming learning environment. Toward these ends, MSU students serve as near-peer mentors, guiding participants in active learning, collaborative learning, project-based learning and culturally-relevant computing activities. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SGWC was forced to abruptly transition to virtual meetings after the first five in-person meetings of the spring 2020 session. Club attendance fell in the immediate wake of Michigan public school closures by about 50%. But retention and morale of those who attended the first virtual session was high. Moreover, feedback from those who completed SGWC and their parents indicate overall satisfaction with the virtual adaptation of SGWC and support that it was successful in achieving its goals. This paper highlights lessons distilled over the course of SGWC's transition to a virtual format. Our goal is to provide a vision for the post-pandemic role of out-of-school time coding clubs in the diversification and development of future computer scientists.