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Welcome to "Georgia Computes!"
We are an NSF "Broadening Participation in Computing" alliance focused on increasing the number and diversity of computing students in the state of Georgia.
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The goal of this effort is to improve the computing education pipeline across the state of Georgia.
In this effort we:
The researchers on this project (see more details on Projects page) are:
Related Web sites:
The goal of this effort is to improve the computing education pipeline across the state of Georgia.
In this effort we:
- Attract girls into computing with activities in camps and afterschool programs with our partners, the Girl Scout Council of Northwest Georgia and the YWCA of Georgia.
- Offer summer camps to middle school and high school students.
- Create role models for students by placing minority and women undergraduate students as assistants in high school computing classes. as STEP fellows with our partner, CEISMC.
- Provide opportunities for real computing activities with graduate student (minority or female) role models in an on-line space.
- Teach high school teachers how to teach computing using motivating examples, in cooperation with our partner, the Georgia Department of Education.
- Offer workshops to University System of Georgia computing faculty on new approaches to motivate computing education.
- Support USG computing faculty in offering their own summer camps, with training, curriculum, and seed funding, to recruit students into their computing programs.
The researchers on this project (see more details on Projects page) are:
- Mark Guzdial (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial), who is responsible for project leadership and for USG faculty workshops.
- Barbara Ericson, who is responsible for the camps and workshops aimed at the pre-undergraduate level.
- Amy Bruckman (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb), who is responsible for the on-line space for computing activities and role models.
- Tom McKlin, who is running the evaluation effort along with Diane Binder.
- Sarita Yardi, who is working on engaging teens as designers of social networks
- Michael Hewner, who is working on Computer Autobiographies
- Jill Dimond, who is working on Computing for Change
- Betsy DiSalvo, who is working on Game Testing: Increasing Black Gamers Interest in CS
- Lijun Ni, who is working on What Makes CS Teachers Change?
- Klara Benda, who is examining distanced education computer science courses
Related Web sites:
- Announcements about upcoming workshops. Sign-up pages for workshops at http://home.cc.gatech.edu/gacomputes
- Partner: CEISMC http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu
- Partner: University System of Georgia computing units http://turing.gcsu.edu/~aaccd
- Media Computation Teachers Website at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach
- Institute for Personal Robotics in Education (IPRE) at http://www.roboteducation.org/
- Institute for Computing Education (ICE) at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt
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