CS4HS: An outreach program for high school CS teachers

SIGCSE 2007: 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-23

  Blum, Lenore ^a   Cortina, Thomas J ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*

Author keywords

Broadening participation; Careers; Computational thinking; Computer science education; High school education; Workshops

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

BROADENING PARTICIPATION; COMPUTATIONAL THINKING; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

EID: 34748920011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1227310.1227320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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