EAGER: Building a Pipeline to STEM Careers in South Central Los Angeles Through Computer Science

在洛杉矶中南部建立一条通往科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）职业的管道，是一项利用计算技能发展作为更广泛学术成就催化剂的努力。这项工作开发了一个为期一年的计算机研讨会，作为洛杉矶一所高中探索计算机科学课程的补充。该研讨会在试图解决阻碍数学成绩较低四分之一的有色人种男孩学业成就的因素方面是强有力的。这项研究将计算机教育作为一种激发更广泛学术成就的手段进行了操作。这项工作的前提是将学习科学的既定技术注入到计算机教学中，这些技术可以有效地解决经常阻碍学生学业成就的更广泛的社会和制度因素。开设更多的计算机科学探索（ECS）课程本身并没有缓解一些与种族和性别相关的学术成就差距。这项工作是对ECS和类似课程的补充，以帮助在困难的学术环境下工作的学生。

Building a Pipeline to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Careers in South Central Los Angeles is an effort use computational skill development as a catalyst for broader academic achievement. The work develops a year long computing seminar that serves as a complement to the Exploring Computer Science course in a high school in Los Angeles. The seminar is robust in its attempt to address the factors that impede academic achievement of a subset of boys of color in the lower quartile of performance in mathematics.The study operationalizes computing education as a means of igniting broader academic achievement. The premise of the work focuses on infusing into computing instruction established techniques from the learning sciences that are effective in addressing the broader social and institutional factors that often hinder students' academic achievement. The deployment of more Exploring Computer Science (ECS) courses has not by itself mitigated some of the academic achievement gaps correlated with race and gender. This work is an attempt to develop a complement to ECS and courses like it, to serve students operating under difficult academic circumstances.