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Comments on: Question/Answer: How Do We Improve Computer Science’s Image? https://www.iwitts.org/blog/2009/09/15/questionanswer-how-do-we-improve-computer-sciences-image/ Helping Educators Close the Gender Gap for Women and Girls in Technology Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.24 By: Shyno Chcko Pandeya https://www.iwitts.org/blog/2009/09/15/questionanswer-how-do-we-improve-computer-sciences-image/#comment-416 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:45:18 +0000 http://www.iwitts.org/blog/?p=285#comment-416 WGBH and ACM have partnered together with funding from NSF to change the image of computing. It is called the New Image of Computing.

Most high school students view computer science as “boring, antisocial, and irrelevant to their lives” The consequences of that perception are dire, with study after study showing a potentially devastating lack of interest in the field.

This initiative is focused on changing the image of computing among college bound girls 13 – 17. The concept we are moving forward with is Dot Diva. We are still in early testing phases and will be developing messages, branding, and building a community of Dot Diva’s to educate, excite and engage girls with computer science.
Find out more about us at http://www.acm.org/dotdiva and fan us at http://www.facebook.com/dotdiva

]]> By: BJ Wishinsky https://www.iwitts.org/blog/2009/09/15/questionanswer-how-do-we-improve-computer-sciences-image/#comment-237 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:48:39 +0000 http://www.iwitts.org/blog/?p=285#comment-237 One small thing that we recently did at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology was to release the video “I am a Technical Woman” to show the diversity of women who work in computing.

The video can be viewed and downloaded for offline use at http://anitaborg.org/news/video

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