TY - GEN
T1 - StitchFest
T2 - 46th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2015
AU - Richard, Gabriela T.
AU - Kafai, Yasmin B.
AU - Adleberg, Barrie
AU - Telhan, Orkan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/2/24
Y1 - 2015/2/24
N2 - While coding competitions and hackathons have steadily increased in number, few women participate. Because these public events present viable opportunities to broaden participation in computing, we designed the theme to focus on "Wear & Care" and collaborative arrangements in a hardware hackathon, called StitchFest, in which 33 undergraduate and graduate students used the LilyPad Arduino to design wearables. Our analysis focused on the interviews conducted with eight female and seven male college participants to understand how targeted recruitment, thematic framing, space arrangements, kinds of materials and material distribution impacted participation and perception. We discuss what we learned about setting a thematic focus and fostering collaborative learning in coding competitions for broadening participation in computing.
AB - While coding competitions and hackathons have steadily increased in number, few women participate. Because these public events present viable opportunities to broaden participation in computing, we designed the theme to focus on "Wear & Care" and collaborative arrangements in a hardware hackathon, called StitchFest, in which 33 undergraduate and graduate students used the LilyPad Arduino to design wearables. Our analysis focused on the interviews conducted with eight female and seven male college participants to understand how targeted recruitment, thematic framing, space arrangements, kinds of materials and material distribution impacted participation and perception. We discuss what we learned about setting a thematic focus and fostering collaborative learning in coding competitions for broadening participation in computing.
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U2 - 10.1145/2676723.2677310
DO - 10.1145/2676723.2677310
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84942416055
T3 - SIGCSE 2015 - Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 114
EP - 119
BT - SIGCSE 2015 - Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
A2 - Alphonce, Carl
A2 - Decker, Adrienne
A2 - Eiselt, Kurt
A2 - Tims, Jodi
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 4 March 2015 through 7 March 2015
ER -