Motivate: Bringing out the fun with 3d printing and e-textiles for middle- And high-school girls

Abstract

pipeline. In the paper, we describe the MOTIVATE framework, developed to expose African American girls to CS, through a summer program for middle- And high-school girls. We describe our experiences implementing the framework that also included Do It Yourself (DIY) activities in 3D printing and e-textiles, and our results from its pilot evaluation showing that we were able to change the girls' perceptions about computing.,Women, and more specifically, minority women, continue to be largely underrepresented in computing. In 2008, of the roughly 20% of women who were awarded bachelor's degrees in computer science (CS), only 5% were minority women47. This lack of ethnic diversity within gender diversity compounds the exigent need to promote and support minority women into the S&E ,. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2014.