Colleges Trying To Engage Girls Earlier, Fix Boys Club Image Of Computer Science
Keira Southard is one of three girls at Terre Haute’s Lost Creek Elementary School building a robot after classes have ended for the day. The other groups are all made up of boys, but that doesn’t bother Southard.
“All the boys are getting a little wild,” she says. “But we like to get stuff done.”
The project is part of MakerSpace Club, a program aimed at introducing kids to computer science. After the robot is assembled, they’ll be able to program it to move using a tablet computer.
- Source: Wbaa
- Via: Charlotte Tuggle
