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Mihyeon Kim; Conor Dibble; Ashley Morris – Gifted Child Today, 2025
From its inception, the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary has been committed to the education of gifted students. Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska, founder of the CFGE, created a learning environment to work directly with gifted students and parents by providing diverse university-based pre-collegiate programs in both residential and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Enrichment Activities, High School Students
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Jungic, Veselin; Thompson, Sheryl – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2020
The purpose of this note is to summarize and share with the wider academic and non-academic communities our experience over five years, 2014-2018, running the Simon Fraser University Academic Summer Camp for Aboriginal High School Students. In what follows we describe our reasons for developing this outreach activity and provide the goals and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Camps, Indigenous Populations, High School Students
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Clarke-Midura, Jody; Sun, Chongning; Pantic, Katarina – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
In response to the need to broaden participation in computer science, we designed a summer camp to teach middle-school-aged youth to code apps with MIT App Inventor. For the past four summers, we have observed significant gains in youth's interest and self-efficacy in computer science, after attending our camps. The majority of these youth,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Middle School Students, Computer Science Education, Summer Programs
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Lawton, Ericka; Obenland, Carrie; Barr, Christopher; Cushing, Matthew; Nichol, Carolyn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Physics program for girls (PPG) is a two-week program held every summer since 2006, with the goal of engaging young women in inquiry-based physics experiments and to connect them with female science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professional role models. The program recruits young women to participate the summer after they have taken…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
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Woodard, Rebecca – Literacy, 2019
This qualitative case study documents a secondary English teacher's making, writing and teaching. The focal teacher engaged in diverse making practices -- including composing, crafting and digital fabrication. She also participated in a National Writing Project (NWP) Summer Institute that focused on both teacher writing and digital composing. Data…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Literacy Education
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Hopp, Manuel D. S.; Zhang, Zhitian Skylor; Hinch, Leeanne; O'Reilly, Colm; Ziegler, Albert – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
The current study's purpose is to explore the influence of peer-perceived creativity (sociometric creativity) on the short-term development of friendships during a summer program for high ability students. Specifically, the two main objectives of our study are: (1) How did students' friendships network and sociometric creativity network evolve in…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Creativity, Friendship, Summer Programs
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Zhong, Baichang; Li, Tingting – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
In Robotics Education (RE), the hands-on experience with troubleshooting problems is seen as a good catalyst to enhance the participants' problem-solving skills. Based on the pedagogical technique of collaborative learning and pair programming, pair learning is an emerging and potential method in RE, which means that students collaborate in pairs…
Descriptors: Robotics, Troubleshooting, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Garcia, Ivonne; Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Herrera, Carla; Strassberger, Marissa; Dixon, Michelle; Linden, Leigh – MDRC, 2020
Many talented students in under-resourced schools do not reach their full potential. Research shows that by sixth grade, children born into poverty have likely spent 6,000 fewer hours learning than their middle-class counterparts. Higher Achievement, an intensive summer and after-school program, aims to close that learning gap. It offers…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, After School Programs, Achievement Gap, Enrichment Activities
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Novick, Peter A.; Gadura, Nidhi – Community College Enterprise, 2020
There is a disparity in the number of adults from minority populations employed in STEM careers. In order to increase the interest of at-risk high school students in the STEM field in Queens, NY, an immersive summer biotechnology boot camp was developed. Fifty-five predominantly minority and female students completed the summer boot camp over a…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, STEM Education, At Risk Students, Minority Group Students
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Magill, Kevin Russel; Smith, Victoria Davis; Blevins, Brooke; LeCompte, Karon N. – Democracy & Education, 2020
Research literature suggests students need to engage in "actual" civic experiences; however, in most cases, teachers feel unwilling or unable to facilitate experiences beyond the formal classroom setting. In this project, we sought to understand the relationship between social studies teachers' civic ideology, pedagogical approaches, and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Student Participation, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
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Dennis, Zara R.; Wilson, Kate; Boyson, Toby; Kasmarik, Kathryn – Teaching Science, 2019
This paper presents a multi-year study on the impact of attending an engineering summer school on girls' confidence that they could become an engineer. While it is relatively easy to recognise and address tangible barriers to entering an engineering profession -- such as a lack of preparedness in terms of a mathematics or physics background --…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering Education, Engineering, Career Choice
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Todd, Brandy; Zvoch, Keith – Research in Science Education, 2019
This study examines science interests, efficacy, attitudes, and identity--referred to as affinities, in the context of an informal science outreach program for girls. A mixed methods design was used to explore girls' science affinities before, during, and after participation in a cohort-based summer science camp. Multivariate analysis of survey…
Descriptors: Females, Scientific Attitudes, Science Interests, Self Concept
Chavarria, Sara P.; Knox, Corey – Online Submission, 2023
This paper introduces a novel framework aimed at supporting non-education faculty and facilitators in creating inclusive educational programs and learning opportunities that address the needs, interests, and priorities of underrepresented individuals and communities in the field of STEM. The framework centers on the fundamental concept of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Guidelines
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Willard, Eleanor – Psychology Teaching Review, 2019
This short report will outline a remote work experience scheme that has successfully been running for three years in the psychology group within the Leeds School of Social Sciences. It is designed to aid transition to university for pre-tertiary students by introducing them to undergraduate literacy skills and making their expectations of…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Psychology, Undergraduate Study, College Preparation
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Suters, Leslie; Suters, Henry; Anderson, Adam – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2021
This paper describes a 54-hour summer institute for grades 6-12 mathematics and science teachers (N = 19) with a comprehensive approach to preparing teachers to use computational thinking (CT) in their classrooms, including training in Python computer programming with Lego® Mindstorms® robotics, mathematics content sessions, and opportunities to…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Programming
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