NSF Sponsored Workshop

Improving and Assessing the Impact of Programs to Encourage

High School Girls to Pursue Science, Engineering, and Mathematics

Santa Clara, CA (a.k.a. Silicon Valley)

August 5 - 7, 1999

This will be a two and a half day workshop for people who are currently involved in the design and/or implementation of a program to encourage the interest and success of high school age women in pursuing higher education and careers in science, engineering, and mathematics. The workshop has two major goals:

1) to provide an opportunity for the participants to share strategies and experience (failures and successes) in order to improve the design of such programs; and

2) to develop an assessment plan that can reasonably be applied nationwide, collecting long term follow-up data on students who apply to such programs (including non-participating applicants) that will allow combination of the results from several programs in order to determine larger effects than can be determined from the small sample represented by each individual program.

This workshop is FREE to all participants and there is money to provide a modest stipend (of $100/day during the workshop), and to offset travel costs as well (I expect to at least be able to cover everyone’s airfare, assuming most economical flights, and hope to cover all expenses).

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING:

by May 30, submit a position paper addressing one or more of the following (non-exclusive list of) topics:

successful design of a program to encourage high school girls in SEM
specific activities that work
pitfalls to avoid
assessment of short term success
long term assessment

(You will be notified of acceptance by June 10.)

Papers (maximum of ten pages) may be sent via email to: rdavis@scu.edu

And via snail mail to:
Ruth E. Davis
Computer Engineering Dept.
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053

phone: (408) 554-4358

fax: (408) 554-5474