BPC-DP: Building a Bridge in Brooklyn

布鲁克林学院(BC)提出了一个项目，重点关注女性少数族裔学生，主要是黑人和西班牙裔学生，他们占布鲁克林学院人口的大多数。该项目的形象是一棵生长在布鲁克利的树，表明学生们可以有远大的目标，实现个人和职业目标，同时保持与他们的过去、他们的家庭、他们的文化和他们的根的联系。女孩们被那些她们认为自己可以有所作为的职业所吸引，通过这个项目，她们将看到计算机职业可以产生影响--通过计算机技术的进步，她们可以帮助分析祖母的乳房X光检查图像，组织叔叔熟食店的库存，或者搜索法律案情摘要，以帮助邻居的行为案件。这一衔接项目将实施并测试一系列针对学生的干预措施，这些干预措施针对六个关键年龄段的学生--从初中到大学四年级。通过注重准备、招聘和保留，该项目将强调计算机科学(CS)在更大范围内的重要性，并提供同行导师和榜样。将在高中和本科层面开展一系列广泛的活动：暑期学院为高中生提供非正式探索基于情景的计算概念的机会；计算预备课程为高中生提供大学计算机科学课程的背景；跨学科研讨会为尚未决定专业的本科生提供机会研究应用于社会相关领域的计算；进入计算机科学的替代途径为新的本科专业提供一系列跟踪的、基于应用的入门编程课程；以及及早参与本科研究和社区外联，向学生展示他们正在发展的技能的目的。一个强大的、多方面的指导计划将为项目所有阶段的参与者创建一个持续的支持系统，并将包括学生大使，将不列颠哥伦比亚省的学生与高中联系起来。预期的结果将是一系列经过验证的方法，可以输出到纽约市和其他地方的其他机构。

Brooklyn College (BC) proposes a project that focuses on female minority students, primarily Black and Hispanic, who make up the majority of the population at Brooklyn College. The image for the project is the "tree that grows in Brookly", illustrating that students can aim high, reaching to meet personal and professional goals, while at the same time, remaining connected to their past, their families, their culture and their roots. Girls are attracted to professions where they feel that they can make a difference, and through this project, they will see that careers in computing can make a difference - through advances in computing technology, they can help analyze their grandmother's mammography images, organize the inventory in their uncle's deli or search for legal briefs to help their neighbor's deportment case. This Bridging project will implement and test a series of interventions aimed at students across six critical years - from junior year in high school through senior year in college. By focusing on preparation, recruitment and retention, the project will emphasize the importance of computer science (CS) in a larger context and provide peer mentors and role models. A broad range of activities, at both high school and undergraduate levels, will be pursued: a Summer Institute to give high schoolstudents a chance to explore context-based computing concepts informally, a Computing Preparatory Course to provide high school students with background for college CS classes, Interdisciplinary Seminars to afford undergraduates who are undecided about their major an opportunity to examine computing applied to socially relevant areas, Alternate Pathways into CS to provide a sequence of tracked, application-based introductory programming courses to new undergraduate majors, and early involvement in Undergraduate Research and Community Outreach to show students the purpose for the skills they are developing. A strong, multi-faceted Mentoring Program will create a continuous support system for participants at all stages of the project and will include Student Ambassadors to link BC students to high schools. The expected results will be a collection of proven methods that can be exported to other institutions across New York City and beyond.