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Title: High School Girls Use PicoCrickets to Learn Programming Skills PDF
Url: https://www.iwitts.org/proven-practices/retention-sub-topics/informal-...
Publisher: National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
Description: This case study discusses Laura Enman, Program Coordinator at Techbridge, and her efforts to work with fourteen high school girls and teach them engineering and computer science principles. She used PicoCrickets which are "tiny computers that can make things spin, light up, and play music" to teach programming. At the end of the course, the girls were excited about the possibilities of computer programming.
LC Classification: Science -- Mathematics -- Instruments and machines -- Calculating machines -- Electronic computers. Computer science -- Other topics, A-Z -- Computers and women
Technology -- Technology (General) -- Women in technology
GEM Subject: Science -- Technology
Science -- Instructional issues
Vocational Education -- Technology
Vocational Education -- Instructional issues
Date Issued: 2007
Resource Type: Reference Material
Instructional Material -- Case Study
Format: Document -- PDF
Audience: Educator
Education Level: High School
Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education
Language: English
Rights: Contact the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science for copyright information
Access Rights: Free access
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