STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

Working with Girls Incorporated of Orange County, Microsoft Research, NCWIT, and Google, we have been able to conduct a series of classes on hands-on hacking.

Gillian posted a new blog entry on our summer camp from last year targeting teaching girls about computing and engineering through the use of PicoCrickets and the chance to “play engineer” through hands-on arts and crafts style computing activities.
http://ncwit.org/news.blog.php?action=display&editorial_id=524
It’s also a good time to let everyone know that the women from WICS (Women in Information [...]

The Eureka! Summer Program with Girls Inc. is an intensive enrichment program for 7th, 8th or 9th grade girls.

Our paper “Design and Evaluation of a Computer Science and Engineering Course for Middle School Girls” was accepted for publication at this year’s SIGCSE.

Thanks to Microsoft and NCWIT for funding our project: Harnessing Hacking: Encouraging Inclusion through Creativity in IT Education for Latina Youth (in cooperation with Debra Richardson and Paul Dourish).