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Inceoglu, Mustafa M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
Outreach, as defined by Wikipedia, is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences, or the general public. This paper describes a computer engineering outreach project of the Department of Computer Engineering at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, to a local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Outreach Programs, Engineering Education
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Dahlberg, Teresa; Barnes, Tiffany; Buch, Kim; Bean, Karen – Computer Science Education, 2010
This article describes a computer science course that uses service learning as a vehicle to accomplish a range of pedagogical and BPC (broadening participation in computing) goals: (1) to attract a diverse group of students and engage them in outreach to younger students to help build a diverse computer science pipeline, (2) to develop leadership…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Service Learning, Science Curriculum, Outreach Programs
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Tangney, Brendan; Oldham, Elizabeth; Conneely, Claire; Barrett, Stephen; Lawlor, John – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
This paper describes a model for computer programming outreach workshops aimed at second-level students (ages 15-16). Participants engage in a series of programming activities based on the Scratch visual programming language, and a very strong group-based pedagogy is followed. Participants are not required to have any prior programming experience.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education