BPC-DP: Building a Bridge in Brooklyn

布鲁克林学院（不列颠哥伦比亚省）提出了一个项目，重点是女性少数民族学生，主要是黑人和西班牙裔，谁占人口的大多数在布鲁克林学院。该项目的形象是“生长在布鲁克里的树”，说明学生可以瞄准高，达到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连接。女孩们被吸引到他们觉得自己可以有所作为的职业中，通过这个项目，她们将看到计算机职业可以有所作为--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，整理叔叔熟食店的库存，或者搜索法律的摘要，帮助邻居处理行为不端案件。这个桥梁项目将实施和测试一系列针对学生的干预措施，这些干预措施跨越了从高中三年级到大学四年级的六个关键年份。通过专注于准备，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。将在高中和本科两级开展广泛的活动：一个暑期学院，让高中生有机会非正式地探索基于上下文的计算概念，一个计算预备课程，为高中生提供大学计算机课程的背景，跨学科研讨会，为那些对自己的专业犹豫不决的本科生提供一个机会，研究应用于社会相关领域的计算，进入CS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，并早期参与本科研究和社区外展，向学生展示他们正在开发的技能的目的。一个强大的，多方面的指导计划将创建一个持续的支持系统，为参与者在项目的所有阶段，并将包括学生大使，连接不列颠哥伦比亚省的学生到高中。预期的结果将是一套行之有效的方法，可以输出到纽约市内外的其他机构。

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.