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"Georgia computes!": improving the computing education pipeline

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Maureen Biggers,

Barbara Ericson,

Sarita YardiAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '09: Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 86 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/1508865.1508899

Published: 04 March 2009 Publication History

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Computing education suffers from low enrollment and a lack of diversity. Both of these problems require changes across the entire computing education pipeline. The "Georgia Computes!" alliance, funded by the National Science Foundation's Broadening Participation in Computing program, seeks to improve the computing education pipeline in Georgia. "Georgia Computes!" is having a measurable effect at each stage of the pipeline, but has not yet shown an impact across the whole pipeline.

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SIGCSE '09: Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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DOI:10.1145/1508865

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Metropolitan State University
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Xavier University
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SIGCSE '09
March 2009
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