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

格鲁吉亚理工学院提议扩展其现有的教育组织联盟--包括格鲁吉亚西北部女童子军理事会、基督教女青年会、格鲁吉亚教育部和格鲁吉亚大学系统--为整个格鲁吉亚州的学生创建一个创新的、有吸引力的和相关的计算机教育管道。这项工作将教授情境计算，重点是使用计算机作为解决具体真实的领域人类问题的工具。这一办法在吸引和留住妇女方面特别成功，有证据表明，这一办法在少数民族人口中也将取得成功。PI将扩大他们目前的学前班和大学生计划，他们为教师和教职员工提供培训和课程材料。该提案支持的活动包括女童子军夏令营和基督教青年会课后方案、指导K-12和大学女生的酷计算在线社区、高中夏令营开发人员培训、高中生本科生指导和大学教师住宿讲习班。虽然这些努力中有许多已经小规模存在或已经成功试点，但该奖项将使其有可能在全州范围内运行和评估。其目的是增加进入本科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.