PGE/SEP: An Experiment in Engaging High School and Undergraduate Women in Computer Science

在这个项目中，我们计划测试和评估一种三管齐下的方法，以吸引女性进入计算机科学，并在她们进入大学后让她们继续从事计算机科学。我们项目的两个最大组成部分旨在为高中女生提供必要的工具，让她们对自己的技术能力有信心，并适应计算机科学，以及为她们提供与大学女教师计算机科学导师一起的独立项目体验。我们的方法的第三个方面是为了留住大学里的女大学生，通过她们的学士学位进入研究生院。这个项目的暑期部分是为20名高中生设计的，让他们参加为期8周、半天的夏令营。该阵营将专注于静态和交互式网络编程，以及使用Java的动画和图形用户界面编程。女孩的力量(网络摇滚的编程！)暑期计划将包括讲座、实验室会议，以及最重要的个人和小组项目。为了给自己所在地区的高中女生提供个人联系，我们计划建立一个访问高中计划，来自学术界和工业界的计算机科学女性作为杰出榜样和访问者参加当地高中。访问榜样将由一名研究生或本科生计算机科学或计算机工程专业的女学生陪同，在两个不同的层面上提供榜样。本科生女性活动的重点是减少女性在计算机专业的孤独感，提高她们的自尊，增强她们对就业机会的认识，促进研究和研究生学习。活动包括指导计划、非正式午餐会议、有组织的实地考察和独立研究学习机会。拟议的项目有许多方面是创新的。我们已经建立了一支由三名资深女计算机科学教授组成的强大团队，她们以研究和教学方面的卓越而闻名。该计划利用网络的技术优势、兴奋感和成功来实现计划的目标。该计划以关键高中和本科初期的女性为目标，重点关注在这些阶段吸引和留住女性的假设障碍。该项目的预期区域结果包括，随着参加大学计算机科学专业的高中女性人数的增加，参加计算机科学高级选修考试的当地高中女性人数增加，以及这个当地地理区域各级许多女性计算机科学家之间建立了沟通。在特拉华河谷之外，研究结果应该有助于促进人们对那些实际上有助于吸引和留住女性的活动的理解。

In this project, we plan to test and evaluate a three-pronged approach to attracting females into computer science and for keeping them in computer science once they have entered college. The two largest components of our program are aimed at giving high school girls the tools necessary to have confidence about their technical abilities and be comfortable in computer science, as well as providing them with an independent project experience with female university faculty mentors in computer science. The third prong of our approach is aimed at retaining college women in computer science through their bachelor's degree and into graduate school.The summer component of this program is designed for 20 high school students to participate in an 8-week, half-day summer camp. The camp will focus on both static and interactive web programming, and animation and gui programming with Java. The Girls' POWER (Programming Of the WEb Rocks!) summer program will include lectures, lab sessions, and most significantly individual and group projects.In order to provide personal contacts for high school girls on their own territory, the high school, we plan to set up a Visit a High School Program, in which females in computer science from both academia and industry participate as distinguished role models and visitors to local high schools. The visiting role models would be accompanied by a graduate or undergraduate female computer science or computer engineering student to provide a role model at two different levels.The activities for undergraduate women focus on lessening women's of isolation as a computer science major, raising their self-esteem, increasing their awareness of career opportunities, and promoting research and graduate study. Activities include a mentoring program, informal lunch meetings, organized field trips, and independent research study opportunities.The proposed project has a number of aspects that are innovative. We have created a strong team of three senior female computer science professors who are noted for both their research and teaching excellence. The program leverages off of the technical strengths, excitement, and successes of the web for achieving the goals of the program. The program targets females in the critical high school and early undergraduate years, and focuses on the hypothesized barriers to attracting and retaining women at these stages.The anticipated regional outcomes of this project include an increase in the number of local high school women taking the Advanced Placement exam in computer science, as increase in the number of high school women at the participating schools majoring in computer science in college, and an established communication between numerous female computer scientists at all levels in this local geographic region. Beyond the Delaware Valley, the results should help to advance the understanding of the kinds of activities that actually aid in attracting and retaining women.