Jen H's List: issues - gender imbalance in ICT and STEM subjects

conference paper

QLD gov
The Learning PLace

Engineering and Technology Board - UK
This briefing paper addresses key issues relating
to the gender imbalance in Science, Engineering
and Technology (SET) occupations.

Storytelling Alice is a programming environment designed to motivate a broad
spectrum of middle school students (particularly girls) to learn to program
computers through creating short 3D animated movies.

To enable and encourage users to create animated stories, Storytelling Alice
includes:


High-level animations that enable users to program social
interactions between characters.
A story-based tutorial that introduces users to programming
through building a story.
A gallery of 3D characters and scenery with custom animations
designed to spark story ideas.