%0 Conference Paper %1 Cottam2010 %A Cottam, Joseph A. %A Foley, Samantha S. %A Menzel, Suzanne %B Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education %C New York, NY, USA %D 2010 %I ACM %K sms th2 th3 %P 17--21 %R 10.1145/1734263.1734271 %T Do roadshows work?: examining the effectiveness of just be %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1734263.1734271 %X Outreach programs communicating the importance and diversity of computing to K-12 students are essential to improving attitudes toward computing. However, the effectiveness of outreach programs, and roadshows in particular, has only recently come under study. <i>Just Be</i> is an outreach roadshow program at Indiana University. It directly addresses stereotypical attitudes towards computing. This paper demonstrates, through statistical analysis of surveys given to college students who participated in a <i>Just Be</i> presentation prepared for high school students, that the <i>Just Be</i> roadshow effectively shifts attitudes for the better. %@ 978-1-4503-0006-3

@inproceedings{Cottam2010, abstract = {Outreach programs communicating the importance and diversity of computing to K-12 students are essential to improving attitudes toward computing. However, the effectiveness of outreach programs, and roadshows in particular, has only recently come under study. <i>Just Be</i> is an outreach roadshow program at Indiana University. It directly addresses stereotypical attitudes towards computing. This paper demonstrates, through statistical analysis of surveys given to college students who participated in a <i>Just Be</i> presentation prepared for high school students, that the <i>Just Be</i> roadshow effectively shifts attitudes for the better.}, acmid = {1734271}, added-at = {2011-10-14T11:47:13.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Cottam, Joseph A. and Foley, Samantha S. and Menzel, Suzanne}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d391865de686b92e06363846a08db02a/ajlakanen}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education}, description = {Do roadshows work?}, doi = {10.1145/1734263.1734271}, interhash = {f02c5da7144fff9510ab75bba071f6cd}, intrahash = {d391865de686b92e06363846a08db02a}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0006-3}, keywords = {sms th2 th3}, location = {Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA}, numpages = {5}, pages = {17--21}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {SIGCSE '10}, timestamp = {2011-10-20T16:22:12.000+0200}, title = {Do roadshows work?: examining the effectiveness of just be}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1734263.1734271}, year = 2010 }