NSF/Loyola University Young Scholars Project

芝加哥洛约拉大学（Loyola University of Chicago）将启动一项为期6周的通勤青年学者项目，为18名数学/计算机科学2 - 2年级的学生提供服务。这个项目让参与者从硬件和软件的角度全面介绍计算机科学。学生们在两个不同的论坛上进行实验。首先，他们组装与ibm兼容的微型计算机，然后在计算机和其他电子设备上进行数字电路实验。其次，他们通过在项目的软件科学介绍中编写的程序对数学对象进行实验。此外，在夏季，参与者还参观了摩托罗拉公司和at&t贝尔实验室的软件开发公司和研发设施。在全日制暑期活动结束时，学生们把他们的电脑带回家，在为期8个月的密集和持续的学年随访中保持和使用。该项目于1988年在青年发展计划资助下开始。它得到了芝加哥新闻媒体和市政府的广泛认可。从1990年开始，该项目将采用人工智能组成部分和配套的群体编程项目；深化职业探索和哲学伦理内容；并且，该项目将正式隶属于nsf资助的少数民族综合区域中心原型。

Loyola University of Chicago will initiate a 6-week commuter Young Scholars project for l8 students in grades ll-l2 in math/computer science. This project gives participants a comprehensive introduction to computer science from both hardware and software perspectives. Students experiment in two distinct forums. First, they assemble IBM-compatible microcomputers, and then perform digital circuitry experiments on the computers and other electronics equipment. Second, they experiment on mathematical objects through programs they write in the project's software science introduction. Also, during the summer, participants visit software development firms and R&D facilities at Motorola, Inc. and AT&T Bell Labs. At the end of the full-time summer activity, students take their computers home to keep and use throughout an intensive and sustained eight-month academic year follow-up. The project began in l988 under YSP funding. It has been widely recognized by Chicago's news media and by its municipal government. Beginning in l990, the project will adopt an artificial intelligence component and accompanying group programming project; the career exploration and philosophy/ethics components will be deepened; and, the project will become formally affiliated with an NSF-funded prototype Comprehensive Regional Center for Minorities.