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Girls in it: how to develop talent and leverage support

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SIGITE '13: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education

Pages 61 - 62

https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512310

Published: 02 October 2013 Publication History

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The objectives of this panel are to inform the audience about national and regional initiatives developed by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) to reach out to middle and high school girls; learn from promising experiences in which the panelists have been directly involved; and discuss venues to scale and sustain efforts to increase women's participation in technology careers. Panelists will describe their particular experiences, and discuss ways to utilize the Aspirations in Computing program to increase enrollment and retention of females in computing. A minimum of 30 minutes will be set aside for question and answer.

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National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. 2013. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2013. Special Report NSF 13-304. Arlington, VA.

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National Center for Women & Information Technology, 2013. By the Numbers. NCWIT, Boulder, CO. Available at http://www.ncwit.org/bythenumbers

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DuBow, W. 2011. NCWIT Internal Evaluation Data. NCWIT, Boulder, CO. Unpublished.

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Girls in it: how to develop talent and leverage support
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
    2. Computing profession
      1. Computing occupations

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SIGITE '13: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education

October 2013

220 pages

ISBN:9781450322393

DOI:10.1145/2512276

General Chair:
William D. Armitage
University of South Florida, USA
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Program Chairs:
Rob Friedman
University of Washington Tacoma, USA
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Ken Baker
CH Mack, USA

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Published: 02 October 2013

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SIGITE/RIIT'13: SIGITE/RIIT 2013

October 10 - 12, 2013

Florida, Orlando, USA

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