Education and Program Opportunities
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Computing and IT - Girls K-12
ComputerGirl
The ComputerGirl project has become an Association for Computing Machinery's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) project. The goal of this site is to this site is to serve as a bridge for young women in high school to the computer world, helping them find the right resources quickly.
Engineer Girl
The Engineer Girl web site is part of the NAE's Celebration of Women in Engineering project. This project tries to bring national attention to the opportunity that engineering represents to all people at any age, but particularly to women and girls.
Gidget
An innovative program for girls interested in computing and IT based in Columbus Ohio.
GirlGeeks.org - Online community for women and girls interested in technology GirlGeeks is an online community for women and girls interested in technology and computing. GirlGeeks is provided by the Bay Area Video Coalition, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization focused on new media education and training for underserved groups.
Computing for Youth in General
Alice - Learning to Program with Alice
The Alice software is freely available at: http://www.alice.org
Alice: Free, Easy, Interactive 3D Graphics for the WWW
Alice v2.0 is the next major version of the Alice 3D Authoring system, from the Stage3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. It has been completely rewritten from scratch over the past few years.
American Computer Science League (ACSL)
ACSL organizes computer science contests and computer programming contests for junior and senior high school students.
Cisco & Cisco Learning Institute Resources--The Gender Initiative
This web site, which promotes the Gender Initiative, contains gender success stories from Academy programs in the U.S. and worldwide and includes links to regional resources for women in IT.
Information Literacy Lesson Plans
Educator's Reference Desk: A series of lesson plans focused on grades 1 through 12 dealing with finding, evaluating and using information from online and non-online sources.
STARS Alliance
The mission of the STARS (Students & Technology in Academia, Research & Service) Alliance is to increase the participation of women, under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities in computing disciplines through multi-faceted interventions focused on the influx and progression of students from middle school through graduate school in programs that lead to computing careers. "....What you can do is be better prepared (to help America be more competitive as a nation). For Americans this means a renewed focus on the core skills that have propelled the American economy so far: science and technology. Without a massive new focus in these areas, America will find itself unable to produce the core of scientists, engineers, and technicians who make up the base of an advanced industrial economy.
GetTech
GetTech, a career education program of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Center for Workforce Success and the U.S. Department of Commerce is a national initiative to provide information to students, teachers and parents about exciting careers in technology and modern manufacturing, and to encourage students to pursue rigorous courses of mathematics and science in school. GetTech has produced a series of public service announcements with the assistance of Women in Film, and Dreamworks Studios. The GetTech program has an interactive web site targeted at middle school students, with games and quizzes, animation and career information designed to be fun and interesting to middle school students.
College & University Programs
CyberCareers Students' Central
CyberCareers is a project of the NWCET, the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The CyberCareers home is the NWCET in Bellevue, Washington. The goal of the project is to offer a complete resource to students, faculty and counselors exploring and teaching about the world of Information Technology careers.
TWICE (The Women in Computer Engineering Collaborative for Applied Software Technology)
Based at Ohio State, the project seeks to encourage and retain women students in Computer Science by providing them with unique opportunities to explore and use new technology, work on real world industry analysis projects, and contribute technical expertise and service to the community. Site contains examples of activities and link to Gidget site focusing on girls in IT.
Women in Computer Science: Carnegie Mellon's Women@SCS
The Women@SCS mission is to create, encourage, and support academic, social, and professional opportunities for women in computer science and to promote the breadth of the field and its diverse community. Women @ SCS Roadshow- Carnegie Mellon University.
The Women in Computing Academic Resource (WCAR) List
The Women in Computing Academic Resource (WCAR) List is a compilation of colleges and universities that have formal and/or informal programs for encouraging/retaining women in computer science (CS). It is an officially sponsored activity of the ACM Committee on the Status of Women.
Women in Engineering Program at Penn State
The WEP WEB offers information on activities, connections with industry, students, faculty and alumnae. As important, it showcases the engineering women who learn, work and play at Penn State.
Curriculum Resources
Basic Computer Skills Home
A short, easy-to-master, web based course on basic online skills. The goal is to establish a solid foundation. Once these basics are in hand, one can build future knowledge of and skill with computers and the Internet.
Computers - Lesson Plans
Educator's Reference Desk: Substantial collection of lesson plans and stand-alone tutorials for learning about computer technology and applications for a wide variety of grade levels and programs.
PBS TeacherSource
Resources collecting through and relevant to various PBS television programming.
Tech Lesson of the Week
Educator's World Magazine Online: An archive of a weekly feature, publishing new lessons focused on information or computing technology. Covers a broad range of subject matter and grade levels, but generally skewed to younger ages.
Technology Lesson Plan Library
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL): Library of a broad range of lesson plans mostly focused on information and computer technology and applications. Divided into topic areas mapped to recognized content and conceptual standards.
Conferences
Computer Games for Girls Workshop
Conducted by the student chapter of ACMW hosted a workshop for 2006 Women in Science day, called "Computer Games for Girls". Seventeen girls, ages 13-14, attended the workshop to learn more about what makes a good game and how to build their own games. Watch for next year's event.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (2006)
The "Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006" is the sixth in a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today’s technology fields.
Math/Science Network
Site for “Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics™ conferences.” These conferences are designed to nurture girls' interest in science and math courses and to encourage them to consider science and math-based career options such as engineering, computer science and physical science.
Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC)
Annual conference. In 2005, at the gathering of computer scientists, men were the minority. In fact, there were over 100 women and only three men. In a field where women usually constitute less than 20%, this was a highly unusual situation, but much appreciated by the attendees of OCWIC.
News
-- Build IT Program to Strengthen Technology Fluency in Middle School Girls: From Menlo Park and Alameda CA - The SRI and Girls Inc. collaboration draws on the combined strengths of both organizations in youth development, gender equity, technology fluency, technology design, and evaluation research. The Build IT curriculum will capitalize on middle school age girls' interest in design and communication technologies to motivate them to use technology, build their technology fluency, and foster their interest in pursuing IT careers.
-- The Downside of Certification The study suggests that there has been a change in employers' acceptance of the value of non-certified tech skills versus certifications in maintaining competitive pay for their workers.
-- Just Be - Women in Computing at Indiana University
When members of the Women in Computing at Indiana University organization sought to increase the number of female students in computer science they soon discovered that many prospective students already ruled that out as a possibility. Undaunted, WIC@IU, an IU School of Informatics-sponsored group, looked at ways they could reach out to regional middle and high school students and persuade them that IT-related studies and jobs were not the exclusive domains of men - and that those entering such fields were not just pocket-protector wearing geeks. Their solution was Just Be, an interactive program largely developed by graduate students Katie Siek and Amanda Stephano.
-- Women in Computing: Collaborative Research Experience for Women in Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering (CREW) Program by Jennifer P. Rubinstein
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