{"id":237658,"date":"2025-08-23T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascnet.ie\/techmate\/?page_id=237658"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:11:58","slug":"computing-courses-school-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ascnet.ie\/techmate\/actions\/computing-courses-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing Courses for School Students &#8211; Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset3&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_fullwidth_header title=&#8221;Computing Courses for School Students&#8221; button_one_text=&#8221;Back to All Actions&#8221; button_one_url=&#8221;https:\/\/ascnet.ie\/techmate\/actions\/&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; title_font_size=&#8221;25px&#8221; 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The goal is to expose students to new mathematical and programming skills, to give them some insights into academic environment and career opportunities, introduce students to relevant role models, and to demonstrate how computing could be applied in a real-life scenario by letting students work on projects that imitate real world problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Facts&#8221; module_id=&#8221;action-facts&#8221; module_class=&#8221;content-block&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;gcid-body-color&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; background_color=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-100px|||&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_css_free_form=&#8221;||&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{%22gcid-body-color%22:%91%22text_text_color%22%93}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Quick Facts to Support this Action<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcu.ie\/engineeringandcomputing\/news\/2025\/may\/computety-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50% of all students attending Dublin City University<\/a>&#8216;s summer programming camps are female.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"testimonial-box\">\n<p>A week-long computing workshops for girls in Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3411510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resulted in a significant increase of intentions to study computer science<\/a> on third level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Where single-gendered classes (SGC) for girls are targeted: <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10172580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SGC girls enjoyed working on CS topics<\/a> significantly more than girls and boys of mixed gender classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;implement&#8221; module_id=&#8221;action-implement&#8221; module_class=&#8221;content-block&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;gcid-body-color&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; background_color=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-100px|||&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{%22gcid-body-color%22:%91%22text_text_color%22%93}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span>Ways to Implement this Action<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There are several ways in which short computing courses can be provided to school students.<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas (extracts from case studies) are summarised below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-dropdown\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"toggleDiv('w1'); return false;\">\u27a4 Coding camps\/workshops for transition year students<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"w1\" class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudublin.ie\/explore\/faculties-and-schools\/computing-digital-data\/school-of-computer-science\/news--events\/ict-summer-camp---city-campus-2024.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technological University Dublin<\/a> (TU Dublin), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcu.ie\/engineeringandcomputing\/news\/2025\/may\/computety-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dublin City University<\/a> (DCU) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/scss\/second-level-students\/#tab_1861911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity College Dublin<\/a> (TCD) practice weekly-long camps\/workshops for transition year students (typically aged 15-17 who decide to take a year before finishing school to focus on their professional development). Programme for the camp includes development of web applications, game development, programming robots, python sessions led by existing students of the faculty and more. DCU reported that their summer camps have achieved a 50% female participation.<\/div>\n<p class=\"text-dropdown\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"toggleDiv('w2'); return false;\">\u27a4 Female only programming workshops and events<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"w2\" class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/scss\/second-level-students\/#tab_1881196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trinity College Dublin runs the CodePlus initiative<\/a> for transition year school girls. Technical workshops to expose girls to the world of computing take place, alongside with talks and career presentations lead by industry role models. Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codeplusireland.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CodePlus here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\">TU Dublin offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudublin.ie\/explore\/faculties-and-schools\/computing-digital-data\/informatics-and-cybersecurity\/news--events\/coding4girls-camp.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a one-day event Coding4Girls<\/a> that invites female secondary school students to a day with practical projects, sessions with exisiting university students, and an opportunity to network and get inspired to pursue a degree in computer science. At the end of the day prizes are awarded to high-performing students in this event.<\/div>\n<p class=\"text-dropdown\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"toggleDiv('w3'); return false;\">\u27a4 Interdisciplinary Online Courses<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"w3\" class=\"dropdown-content\"><span>School children aged 10-15 are offered (through their teachers, who are reached via different channels including social media) to take part in an online interdisciplinary data science course provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstartit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RockStartIt<\/a> project of The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstartit.com\/kursuebersicht-bienenprojekt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">course deals with the decline of the bee population<\/a> and can span over several weeks with each session being from 30 mins to 2.5 hours in duration. The information and course materials are free and available exclusively online and no specific guidance for the teachers is required. The project is particularly<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10172580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> targeting single gender classes with girls<\/a> and has an aim to spark interest in computer science among their participants. This and other <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstartit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interdisciplinary online courses from RockStartiT are findable here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"c3\" class=\"dropdown-content\"><\/div>\n<p>\n<script>\nfunction toggleDiv(id) {\n  var x = document.getElementById(id);\n  x.style.display = (x.style.display === \"none\" || x.style.display === \"\") ? \"block\" : \"none\";\n}\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;eval&#8221; module_id=&#8221;action-eval&#8221; module_class=&#8221;content-block&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;gcid-body-color&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; background_color=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-100px|||&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{%22gcid-body-color%22:%91%22text_text_color%22%93}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span>Evaluation Approach<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>While it might be challenging to assess a short-term impact of this action, a way to see impact is for instance, to administer student survey before and after the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Study <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3411510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCodePlus\u201d\u2014Measuring Short-Term Efficacy in a Non-Formal, All-Female CS Outreach Programme<\/a> assessed computing self-efficacy, and compared interntions to study CS, perceptions of IT professions, and perception of undergraduate CS course before and after the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Study <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10172580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engaging Girls in Computer Science: Do Single-Gender Interdisciplinary Classes Help?\u00a0<\/a> assessed the enthusiasm potential of an intervention, using three components: positive feelings, interest, and future intents in the pre- and post-questionnaire. Sample questions from the survey is available in the Resources section.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" lang=\"EN-GB\" class=\"TextRun SCXW242812560 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW242812560 BCX0\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<script>\nfunction toggleDiv(id) {\n  var x = document.getElementById(id);\n  x.style.display = (x.style.display === \"none\" || x.style.display === \"\") ? \"block\" : \"none\";\n}\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;References&#8221; module_id=&#8221;action-references&#8221; module_class=&#8221;content-block&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;gcid-body-color&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;15px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; background_color=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-100px|||&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;RGBA(255,255,255,0)&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{%22gcid-body-color%22:%91%22text_text_color%22%93}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"boxed\">\n<p>Bee Project \u2013 Teacher\u2019s guide &#8211; \u00a0RockStartIT <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstartit.com\/kursuebersicht-bienenprojekt\/\">https:\/\/rockstartit.com\/kursuebersicht-bienenprojekt\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ComputeTY 2025 \u2013 DCU \u2013 Faculty of Engineering and Computing \u2013 Dublin City University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcu.ie\/engineeringandcomputing\/news\/2025\/may\/computety-2025\">https:\/\/www.dcu.ie\/engineeringandcomputing\/news\/2025\/may\/computety-2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ICT Summer Camp \u2013 City Campus 2024 \u2013 Computer Science \u2013 Technological University Dublin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tudublin.ie\/explore\/faculties-and-schools\/computing-digital-data\/school-of-computer-science\/news--events\/ict-summer-camp---city-campus-2024.php#:~:text=The%20Computing%20Academy%20takes%20place,pm%20Friday%2C%2012th%20April%202024\">https:\/\/www.tudublin.ie\/explore\/faculties-and-schools\/computing-digital-data\/school-of-computer-science\/news&#8211;events\/ict-summer-camp&#8212;city-campus-2024.php#:~:text=The%20Computing%20Academy%20takes%20place,pm%20Friday%2C%2012th%20April%202024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawlor, G., Byrne, P. and Tangney, B., 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3411510\">\u201cCodePlus\u201d\u2014Measuring Short-Term Efficacy in a Non-Formal, All-Female CS Outreach Programme<\/a>.\u00a0<em>ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)<\/em>,\u00a0<em>20<\/em>(4), pp.1-18.<\/p>\n<p>Marquardt, K., Wagner, I. and Happe, L., 2023, May. <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10172580\">Engaging girls in computer science: Do single-gender interdisciplinary classes help?<\/a>. In\u00a0<em>2023 IEEE\/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)<\/em>\u00a0(pp. 128-140). 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