Try/CATCH - a CS outreach event organized by female university students for female high school students

Abstract

Try/CATCH (Computing and Technology Conference for Her) is a computing science female high school outreach event, which is run and organized almost exclusively by graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Computing science at Simon Fraser University. In this paper we describe the Try/CATCH event, including main activities that took place during the event and how this event started and evolved to its current version. We also analyze how Try/CATCH 2011 was perceived and experienced by the high school student participants as well as the university student organizers, based on postworkshop self-perception surveys and interviews.Results obtained so far are very encouraging, indicating a positive influence on the student participants and the event organizers.

A percepção das mulheres sobre a programação - Oficinas de Programação Django Girls

“…Outro fator interessanteé o perfil das voluntárias na sua maioría estudantes e formadas de carreiras de Computacao como o estudo conduzido pelo [Wang et al 2012]…”

“…Existem várias iniciativas que têm como foco meninas do ensino médio ( [Wang et al 2012], [Bim et al 2016], [Macedo et al 2015]), estudantes universitárias ( [Michell et al 2017], [Cheryan et al 2015], [Sax et al 2017], [Amaral et al 2017], [Wang et al 2017]), crianças em idade escolar [Master et al 2017] e mulheres na indústria ([Black et al 2005] e [Rosenbloom et al 2008]).…”