Girls on the go: A cs summer camp to attract and inspire female high school students

SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 615-620

  Burge, Janet E ^a   Gannod, Gerald C ^a   Doyle, Maureen ^b   Davis, Karen C ^c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile Application Development; Recruiting Women; Summer Camps

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; RECRUITING WOMEN; RESEARCH TOOLS; SUMMER CAMP;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 84876262313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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