STARS Computing Corps Student Toolkit

Self-directed tutorials to inspire and catalyze BPC Research.

BPC: Broadening Participation in Computing

Learn about the purpose and goals of BPC. This slide deck can be used to showcase important stats related to BPC and explain why it's an important issue within the Computer Science field.

BPC: Broadening Participation in Computing.pptx

Demonstrating the Impact of your STARS Project.pptx

Demonstrating the Impact of your STARS Project

Learn about research and evaluation of BPC research and how to apply the STARS BPC Research Model. This slide deck also provides information on leveraging STARS research tools within your own research.

The STARS Aligned: How the STARS Computing Corps Broadens Participation in Computing

Learn about programs developed by STARS with BPC goals in mind. Programs include STARS IGNITE, STARS Launch, STARS Teach CS, and more. Also includes important research questions associated with STARS and BPC work.

The STARS Aligned - How the STARS Computing Corps Broadens Participation in Computing.pptx

How to Assess STARS Outreach.pptx

How to Assess STARS Outreach

Learn how to conduct interviews and focus groups, as well as guidelines for observing an outreach activity or event. This can be useful for preparing for a STARS outreach event.

Defining Research and Evaluation Questions

Learn how to better define your research and evaluation questions for a project. This slide deck includes sample research and evaluation questions, as well as several example logic models to plan research and determine research questions.

Defining Research and Evaluation Questions.pptx

Importance of CS Education in K12.pptx

Importance of CS Education in K12

Learn about the importance and impact of providing CS education in K12. This slide deck provides stats that depict how valuable a CS degree can be for a college graduate and how CS education in K12 can help us achieve BPC related goals.

Effective strategies for STARS outreach

This slide deck provides various ideas for effective STARS outreach. These new ideas can help you to get K12 students better engaged during outreach events.

STARS outreach strategies.pptx

What is Service Learning?

Learn how service learning is defined and examples of what it looks like. This slide deck can help you to better understand the purpose of service learning.

Intro to Computational Thinking

Learn about the importance and relevance of computational thinking. This slide deck includes several examples of types of computational thinking and how they can be applied.

Intro to Computational Thinking

Partnership Building

This slide deck provides tips on partnership building including determining the purpose of your meetings and guidelines for professionalism.

Communication Skills

Learn how to communicate ideas in formal presentations and quick pitches. This is great preparation for any class related presentation or outreach event.

Communication Skills

Practicing Ethical Research

This slide deck can increase your understadning of ethical research conduct with human subjects. It also incldues information on ethical systems vs ethical reasoning.

How-to-Read-a-Paper

This slide deck provides information on how to effectively read an academic paper and what to focus on while reading. Learning about this topic is a good way to prepare before beginning research for a project or paper.

How-to-Read-a-Paper

Communicating Your Research

Learn about Wow, How, Now, a method that can help you communicate your research to computing or non-computing audiences. This slide deck also includes information on the intellectual merit and broader impact of BPC research.

Creating Academic Research Posters

Learn more about the purpose of an academic poster, considerations for creating your poster, how to tell a visual story, and more. This is a great way to prepare before creating a poster for a class assignment or conference.

Creating Academic Research Posters

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants CNS 0540523, CNS-0739216, CNS-1042468, CNS-1840538, CNS-2023391, and CNS-2137338. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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