This study investigated Greek high school students' intentions and motivation towards and
against pursuing academic studies in Computer Science (CS), the influence of the family …

An innovative week long mini-course for girls has successfully used video game
development as the main motivation by teaching related computer science topics at the …

universities. But, it is not enough to offer computing summer camps and hope that students
like them. The camps should be effective by some measure, such as broadening …

With the rise of Computational Thinking (CT) instruction at the elementary level, it is
imperative that elementary computing instruction support a variety of learners. A popular …

This exploratory study examines the impact of a collaborative inquiry-and design-based
afterschool program on urban high school students' IT/STEM learning—using information …

The field of computer science suffers from a lack of diversity. The Stanford Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory's Outreach Summer (SAILORS), a two-week non-residential free …

We developed a near-peer mentoring model for high school youth to mentor middle school
youth on how to program using MIT App Inventor. The purpose of this study was to …

Google's App Inventor for Android (AIA) is the newest visual" blocks" programming language
designed to introduce students to programming through creation of mobile applications …

Our work is situated in research on Computer Science (CS) learning in informal learning
environments and literature on the factors that influence girls to enter CS. In this article, we …

As interest in increasing the involvement of women in science and engineering grows, it is
necessary to identify perceived barriers to success in the fields. The present study assessed …