Build IT: Girls Developing Information Technology Fluency Through Design. Annual Report Year 1

Citation

Koch, M. et al. (August, 2006). Build IT: Girls Developing Information Technology Fluency through Design. Annual Report Year 1. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Introduction

The goals for the first year of the Build IT project were to develop and implement the three units of the curriculum at four school sites reaching a total of 60 girls in sixth and seventh grade in order to begin to achieve the above three programmatic goals.


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