"The heart of this book illuminates how, in the pursuit of dignity and hope, girls of color mediate and mitigate the digital and the social within their peer-directed space called COMPUGIRLS. COMPUGIRLS is a National Science Foundation-funded project-based, enrichment program for adolescent (ages 13 to 18) girls, and the program purposely targets girls from high needs schools who more frequently lack advanced computer science classes, opportunities for girls to become technological innovators, and teachers nurturing a ...
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"The heart of this book illuminates how, in the pursuit of dignity and hope, girls of color mediate and mitigate the digital and the social within their peer-directed space called COMPUGIRLS. COMPUGIRLS is a National Science Foundation-funded project-based, enrichment program for adolescent (ages 13 to 18) girls, and the program purposely targets girls from high needs schools who more frequently lack advanced computer science classes, opportunities for girls to become technological innovators, and teachers nurturing a context for student empowerment. Although often labeled as a technology program, COMPUGIRLS' core principles emphasize sociocultural elements such as identity (e.g. race, gender, ethnicity) interpersonal associations, and community advancement. I argue that through engagement and careful analysis of these constructs, girls will come to understand their intersubjectivities and reimagine their selves as agentic social actors with greater potential of becoming technologists. When girls reveal their selves and we analyze this process we learn which, how, and to what extent structures and systems contribute to their success in this digital age as well as the constraints preventing their liberation and participation in technological innovation. This book project provides the much-needed complexity to understanding how some girls of color find and define their selves in this digital age"--
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What does is it mean for girls of color to become techno-social change agents--individuals who fuse technological savvy with a deep understanding of society in order to analyze and confront inequality? Kimberly A. Scott explores this question and others as she details the National Science Foundation-funded enrichment project COMPUGIRLS. This groundbreaking initiative teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color but, as importantly, offers a setting that emphasizes empowerment, community advancement, and self-discovery. Scott draws on her experience as an architect of COMPUGIRLS to detail the difficulties of translating participants' lives into a digital context while tracing how the program evolved. The dramatic stories of the participants show them blending newly developed technical and communication skills in ways designed to spark effective action and bring about important change. A compelling merger of theory and storytelling, COMPUGIRLS provides a much-needed roadmap for understanding how girls of color can find and define their selves in today's digital age.
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