The COMPUGIRLS: Culturally relevant technology program for adolescent girls was developed to promote underrepresented girls' future possible selves and career pathways in computer-related technology fields.
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Drawing from our two‐year ethnography, we juxtapose the experiences of two cohorts in one culturally responsive computing program, examining how the program fostered girls’ emerging identities as technosocial change agents.
Discourse about girls and women of color in technology has followed the familiar path of using a single-unit analysis to explain disparity.
First, this paper argues that applications of SCOT in feminist science and technology studies (STS) have largely focused on analyzing how gender and technology are coproduced, resulting in lack of scholarship that examines the mutually constitutive relationship between technology, gender and
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STELAR ITEST Summit 2017 Keynote Panel
Career development theory: From theory to practice in ITEST projects
Facilitator: Joyce Malyn-Smith
Keynote: David Blustein, Professor, Boston College
ITEST panelists:
Kimberly Scott
Eli Tucker-Raymond
STELAR ITEST Summit Day 2 Keynote Panel, Q&A Session featuring:
STELAR ITEST Summit 2017 Day 2 Keynote Panel, Kimberly A. Scott
News
Survey after survey has shown a lack of women engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
STELAR would like to congratulate Dr. Kimberly A. Scott, Principal Investigator for the CompuGirls ITEST project, on her appointment by President Obama to lead the National STEM Collaborative.
Congratulations are in order to Kimberly Scott, a long time ITEST community member, and founder of COMPUGIRLS, for being named a STEM Access Champion of Change at the White House.
Blog
The STELAR center organized a panel at the Summit to highlight findings from the ITEST program related to motivating students to pursue and persist in STEM education and career pathways.
What role does community, family, and culture play in the motivation to learn? What motivates young people to participate in STEM learning experiences? What do these experiences teach them about STEM educational and career paths?
Event
STELAR and select ITEST projects delivered a panel presentation at the Massachusetts STEM Summit in Worcester's DCU Center on Wednesday, October 22, 2014.
Moderator: Sarita Pillai
This webinar focused on current findings from the ITEST program related to youth motivation and STEM career development. Participants heard from ITEST projects working across the U.S. to learn specific strategies for as well as successes and challenges with fostering and assessing youth