Girls embrace technology: A summer internship for high school girls

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages T4D6-T4D11

  Sullivan, Jacquelyn F ^a   Reamon, Derek ^a   Louie, Beverly ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender equity in computing; Girls and technology; Information technology; K 12 education; Teenagers and technology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DESIGN; EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; USER INTERFACES;

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; GENDER EQUITY; INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARES; K-12 EDUCATION; MULTI-MEDIA AUTHORING; MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTS; USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84945977852     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2003.1263375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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