Our paper “Design and Evaluation of a Computer Science and Engineering Course for Middle
School Girls” was accepted for publication at this year’s SIGCSE. The paper describes the workshop held over the summer in conjunction with Girls Inc. to introduce middle school aged girls to programming through hands-on interactive engagement with PicoCrickets.

Authors: Gabriela Marcu, Sam Kaufman, Kate Lee, Rebecca Black, Paul Dourish, Gillian Hayes, and Debra Richardson