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A Framework for Socially-Relevant Service-Learning Internship Experiences for High School Students

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Veronica Catete,

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SIGCSE 2022: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Volume 1

Pages 815 - 821

https://doi.org/10.1145/3478431.3499355

Published: 22 February 2022 Publication History

Abstract

By age 15 girls start to lose interest in STEM, and less than 50% consider a STEM-related career. Providing hands-on internship opportunities has been one of the leading ways to help connect students with exploring computing careers; however, these opportunities are limited in high school. We propose a framework for a university-led high school internship initiative that focuses on service learning, co-design, and the propagation of engaging computing curricula for younger audiences. We piloted this model virtually in summer 2021, with high school students and teachers as interns mentored by university role models. Teams led the development and implementation of computing-infused curricula for a virtual summer coding camp. In this article, we share our framework and review the importance of service-learning for recruiting diverse participants and the use of co-design as a way to broker relationships between developers and community stakeholders. Additionally, we provide preliminary outcomes of our internship model on student and teacher participants gathered from qualitative data including end-of-summer presentations and post-program interviews.

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A Framework for Socially-Relevant Service-Learning Internship Experiences for High School Students
1. Social and professional topics
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https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14090167
Kurkovsky SChoppella VPhatak DLuxton-Reilly ACraig M(2023)Student Reflections on Service-Learning in Software Engineering and Their Experiences with Non-technical ClientsProceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 110.1145/3576882.3617929(112-118)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3576882.3617929
Limke AMilliken ACateté VGransbury IIsvik APrice TMartens CBarnes TBecker BQuille KLaakso MBarendsen ESimon (2022)Case Studies on the Use of Storyboarding by Novice ProgrammersProceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 110.1145/3502718.3524749(318-324)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
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