
Outreach-in-a-Box: Discovering IT.
A program to strengthen and diversify the IT pipeline though outreach to middle schools. Using the box, IT professionals customize and deliver a classroom presentation and engage youth in hands-on activities that inspire and inform them about opportunities in IT.
Mentoring-in-a-Box: Technical Women at Work
Mentoring-in-a-Box: Technical Women at Work zeros-in on challenges unique to technical women in industry settings. It also focuses on the long view: helping women survive their jobs and thrive in their careers, as well as helping them envision, plan, and take practical steps toward positions of influence and innovation. The "Box" contains strategies, activities, and tools that support a thriving and productive relationship between mentor and protégée.
Faculty Mentoring-in-a-Box: Academic Women in Computing
Women in scientific disciplines face challenges, from institutionalized bias to differences in communication styles and a lack of female role models. Faculty Mentoring-in-a-Box addresses the challenges of the computer science faculty experience. Designed to help pre-tenure faculty women prepare for the next stage of their careers and look ahead to positions of accomplishment and influence, Faculty Mentoring-in-a-Box supplies practical activities, resources, and templates to help you start and sustain a successful mentoring relationship.
Pipeline-in-a-Box: Promoting Advancement of CS/IT Students from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions
Pipeline-in-a-Box: Promoting Advancement of CS/IT Students from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions outlines five steps for strengthening the relationship between faculty, administrators, and advisors at community colleges and four-year institutions in order to increase the number of students, including underrepresented groups, graduating with computer science (CS) or information technology (IT) baccalaureate degrees. Pipeline-in-a-Box provides strategies, data, templates, posters, presentations, and other resources for recruiting, transferring, and graduating students obtaining degrees in CS and IT.
Pair Programming-in-a-Box: The Power of Collaborative Learning
Pair Programming-in-a-Box is a set of resources that helps instructors of introductory college programming classes integrate pair programming into their courses. This "Box" provides validated methods for implementing pair programming, including orienting students and course staff, forming programming pairs, facilitating teamwork, assessing students' individual competency, and evaluating the effectiveness of pair programming. Pair Programming-in-a-Box supplies sample handouts for students and course staff, as well as a partner questionnaire and in-depth student survey that can be adapted to meet the particular needs of a course.











