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The evolution of a computational outreach program to secondary school students

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SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1121341.1121479

Published: 03 March 2006 Publication History

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This paper tracks the five-year growth and current trajectory of a computational outreach program at a small, liberal-arts college. The program has enhanced opportunities for talented high-school students to experience computation more deeply than their HS curriculum currently offers. This outreach evolved from a naive initial premise into a mutually beneficial interaction between an undergraduate computer science department and a local secondary school. The most important factor in the program's sustainability is a supportive liaison within the high school's administration. We hope the lessons we have learned will help other CS departments develop sustainable outreach programs.

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