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

乔治亚理工学院提议扩大其现有的教育组织联盟——包括西北乔治亚女童子军理事会、基督教女青年会、乔治亚教育部和乔治亚大学系统——为整个乔治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。这一努力将教授情境化计算，侧重于使用计算机作为解决具体现实领域人类问题的工具。这种做法在吸引和留住妇女方面特别成功，有证据表明，它在少数民族人口中也将取得成功。这些私立学校将扩大目前针对大学预科学生和大学生的课程，并为教师和教职员工提供培训和课程材料。这项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项目，一个为K-12和大学阶段的女孩提供指导的Cool Computing在线社区，为高中夏令营的开发者提供培训，为高中学生提供本科指导，以及为大学教员提供住宿讲习班。虽然其中许多努力已经小规模存在或已经成功试点，但该奖项将使其在全州范围内运行和评估成为可能。其目的是增加进入计算机本科和研究生课程的学生流量。

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.