Camps on a shoestring: How we survived a summer

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 383-388

  Dunn, Deborah L ^a   Strader, Robert G ^a   Pickard, Michael M ^a  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camps; Computer science education; Outreach; Robotics; STEM; Storytelling; Teacher training

Indexed keywords

CAMPS; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; OUTREACH; STEM; STORYTELLING; TEACHER TRAINING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; ROBOTICS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 79954440476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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