Attracting Girls to Computing Barbara Ericson, Director Computing Outreach, Georgia Tech

ericson@cc.gatech.edu

Websites at Georgia Tech http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt - Institute for Computing Education (ICE) - teacher workshops, summer camps, competitions, and lending library http://ice-web.cc.gatech.edu/dl/ - Distance Learning Website (video tutorials and projects for Scratch, Alice, App Inventor, Pleo robots and more) http://ice.cc.gatech.edu/apexam_final/ - Practice multiple choice tests for AP CS A Free Materials to Teach Computing http://www.csunplugged.org - CS Unplugged activities that don't require a computer to teach computing concepts http://hoodamath.com/games/lightbot2.php - LightBot 2.0 - flash game with drag-and-drop programming a robot to light up a blue tile http://scratch.mit.edu - Scratch 2.0 drag-and-drop programming in the browser using Flash http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4/ - Scratch 1.4 earlier version of Scratch that you can install on your computers and works with LEGO WeDo and PicoBoard http://snap.berkeley.edu - Snap 4.0 version of Scratch from Berkeley that works in a browser http://www.alice.org/index.php - Alice 2 and 3 create 3D movies and games with drag-and-drop programming http://appinventor.mit.edu - App Inventor create Android apps using drag-and-drop programming http://mediacomputation.org - Media Computation use Python or Java to write programs that manipulate media http://earsketch.gatech.edu - EarSketch Write Python programs to remix music http://www.greenfoot.org - Greenfoot Write Java programs to create simulations and games. Organizations Promoting Computing http://www.code.org - Code.org video on why students should learn to code http://csta.acm.org - CSTA professional organization for computing teachers http://www.ncwit.org - NCWIT resources to help increase female interest in computing and to help convince principles, parents, counselors, and policy makers Marketing to Girls http://csta.acm.org/Resources/sub/BrochuresPostersVideos.html - CSTA posters http://www.dotdiva.org - Dot Diva stories from young women of computing and X http://www.ncwit.org/resources?field_audiences_tid%5B%5D=1 - NCWIT talking points cards, research, and more http://ww2.ncwit.org/award/award.index.php - NCWIT Aspirations Award

Attracting Girls to Computing - Continued Research http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2009/nic-interim-report/ - Study on how college bound teens view computing http://www.ncwit.org/resources/girls-it-facts - NCWIT - Girls and IT The Facts Commercial Items for Teaching Computing https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10311 - PicoBoard - $45 http://www.pleoworld.com - Pleo dinasour robot - $470 http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/characteristics/ProductLine~LEGO%20Education%20WeDo - LEGO WeDo - $130 http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/characteristics/ProductLine~LEGO%20MINDSTORMS%20Education%20EV3 - LEGO EV3 - $340 + $100 for software http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/categories/products/high-school/tetrix - LEGO Tetrix - $600 http://www.finchrobot.com - Finch Robot - $99 http://www.betterbots.com - IPRE robot - $110 + $100 fluke Computing Curricula http://www.bootstrapworld.org - Bootstrap - ages 12 16, free http://globaloria.org - Globaloria - fee based http://www.exploringcs.org - Exploring Computer Science HS - free http://www.csprinciples.org - CS Principles new AP by 2016-2017 HS free http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/4483.html - Advanced Placement Computer Science A HS free http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-curriculum-guide-draft - Scratch curriculum Other Options for Students http://coderdojo.com - afterschool program free http://www.codecademy.com - online tutorials for web development http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tutorials/programming-basics - online programming tutorials in processing JS Materials for Teachers http://cs10kcommunity.org - CS 10K site for Exploring CS and CS Principles http://scratched.media.mit.edu - Scratch Ed website for teachers http://greenroom.greenfoot.org/door - Greenfoot website for teachers http://stwww.weizmann.ac.il/g-cs/scratch/scratch_en.html - free book for Scratch http://www.appinventor.org/projects - free book for App Inventor