IT Careers Camp: An early intervention strategy to increase IS enrollments

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Choudhury, Vivek ^a   Lopes, Alexandre B ^a   Arthur, Doug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Atos Origin   (United States)

Author keywords

Is enrollments; Summer camps

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS;

BUSINESS PROBLEMS; EARLY INTERVENTION; HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; IT JOB MARKET; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SUMMER CAMP; WEB DEVELOPMENT;

EDUCATION;

EID: 77954245729     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1090.0259     Document Type: Article

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