BPC-A: Statewide Vertical Alliance to Broaden Participation through Innovative, Inviting, and Relevant Computing Education

佐治亚理工学院提议扩大其现有的教育组织联盟，包括佐治亚州西北部女童军理事会、女青年会、佐治亚州教育部和佐治亚州大学系统，为佐治亚州的学生创建一条创新的、有吸引力的和相关的计算教育渠道。这项工作将教授情景计算，重点是使用计算机作为工具来解决具体的真实领域的人类问题。这种方法在吸引和留住妇女方面特别成功，而且有证据表明，它在少数群体中也将取得成功。PIs将扩大他们目前针对大学预科和大学学生的课程，并为教师和教职员工提供培训和课程材料。根据这项提议，支持的活动包括女童子军夏令营和放学后青年会计划，一个指导K-12和大学女孩的酷计算在线社区，对高中夏令营开发人员的培训，对高中生的本科指导，以及为大学教职员工举办的住宿研讨会。虽然其中许多努力已经小规模存在或已经成功试行，但这一奖项将使其能够在全州范围内运行和评估。其目的是增加进入本科生和研究生计算机课程的学生流量。

Georgia Institute of Technology proposes to extend its existing alliance of educational organizations - including the Girl Scout Council of Northwestern Georgia, the YWCA, Georgia Department of Education, and the University System of Georgia - to create a pipeline of innovative, inviting, and relevant computing education for students across the state of Georgia. The effort will teach contextualized computing which focuses on use of the computer as a tool in solving, concrete real domain, human problems. This approach has been particularly successful in attracting and retaining women, and there is evidence that it will also be successful in minority populations. The PIs will extend their current programs for precollege and college students, and they provide training and curricular materials for teachers and faculty. Activities supported under this proposal include Girl Scout summer camps and YMCA after school programs, a Cool Computing on-line community to mentor girls at the K-12 and college level, training for developers of high school camps, undergraduate mentoring of high school students, and residential workshops for college faculty. While many of these efforts already exist on a small scale or have been successfully piloted, this award will make it possible to run and evaluate them at the state-wide level. The aim is to increase the flow of students entering undergraduate and graduate computing programs.