Document Type
Presentation
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Abstract
This poster describes the early development of a K-12 outreach model, named CSinc, to promote CS in Ireland. It has already been piloted with over 4500 K-12 students in its first year. At the heart of the model is a two-hour camp that incorporates an on-site school delivery. Schools from all over Ireland self-selected to participate, including male only, female only and mixed schools. The no-cost nature of the model meant a range of schools participated from officially designated "disadvantaged" to private fee-paying. During the initial deployment over 2500 pre- and post- surveys have been collected. This data will allow for further model improvement and validation. A positive initial outcome was the balance of male and female participants, 46:54 respectively. This poster describes the model structure in detail and outlines early findings.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3364510.3366156
Recommended Citation
Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Brett A. Becker, and Susan Bergin. 2019. CSinc: An Inclusive K-12 Outreach Model. In Proceedings of the 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 34, 1–2. DOI: 10.1145/3364510.3366156
Publication Details
In Proceedings of the 19th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research