SGER: Bringing Historical Minorities to Computer Science

近年来，高等院校的入学人数在性别人口统计学上已趋于平衡，女生人数超过男生人数的趋势。然而，在计算机科学领域，女生人数，特别是获得研究生学位的女生人数正在下降。该项目的目标是激励高中女生在高中学习更多的科学和数学，从而使她们在上大学或选择计算机科学或信息技术职业时更好地准备和更积极地追求计算机科学学位。这个探索性项目计划让14岁和15岁的女孩（其中一些是美洲原住民）在为期两周的暑期讲习班期间接触各种计算机科学活动，并在学年期间进一步指导。 研讨会的课程包括对计算机科学、编程原理的简要介绍，以及与机器人和计算机的多种实践活动（例如，建立网页;为他们自己的音乐文件创建数据库等）。此外，计算机科学相关领域的当地专业妇女也参与了该方案，这样她们就可以与女孩互动，当校园里的几个星期结束时，这些妇女在接下来的两个学年里担任导师。该项目是在蒙大拿州博兹曼当地中学的支持下开展的，其目标之一是确定哪些活动最能激发和保持年轻妇女，特别是美洲土著妇女对计算机科学研究和职业的兴趣。参与该项目的计算机科学研究人员正在与教育评估研究人员合作设计活动并分析项目的影响。研究结果将在有关计算机科学和教育会议上发表和介绍，该项目提供了一种方法，使更多的妇女选择计算机科学或密切相关的领域作为其学术教育或职业的专业，因此具有在全国产生广泛影响的巨大潜力。随着项目的进行，项目网站（http：//www.cs.montana.edu/defrance/WorkshopMentoring/）将提供进一步的信息。

In recent years the enrolment in colleges and universities has become balanced in gender demographics, with a trend for more female students than male students. However, in computer science the numbers of female students, especially in graduate degrees are dropping. The goal of this project is to motivate the high school girls to study more science and math in their time in high school, and thus to have them better prepared and more motivated to pursue a computer science degree when they attend college or to select a computer science or information technology career. This exploratory project plans to have fourteen and fifteen-year-old girls (some of whom are Native Americans) exposed to various computer science activities during two week-long summer workshops extended with further mentoring during the school year. Curriculum for the workshop includes a brief introduction to computer science, principles of programming, and multiple hands-on activities with robots and computers (e.g., building web pages; creation of a database for their own music files, etc.). In addition, local professional women in the computer science-related areas are involved in the program, so that they can interact with the girls and when the weeks on campus are over, the women act as mentors during the next two school years. The project is carried out with support from the local high schools in Bozeman, Montana.One of the goals of this exploratory project is to identify the types of activities that are most successful in motivating and retaining the interest of young women, especially the Native Americans, in computer science studies and careers. The computer science researchers involved in this project are collaborating with education evaluation researchers in designing the activities and analyzing the project's impact. The results will be published and presented at relevant computer science and educational conferences.The project has significant potential for broad impact nationally by providing a methodology for increasing the number of women who choose computer science or a closely related field as their major in their academic education or career. The project web site(http://www.cs.montana.edu/defrance/WorkshopMentoring/) will provide further information as the project proceeds.