A LEAD Center evaluation of the CRPC's GirlTECH workshop established the workshop's effectiveness in helping K-12 teachers to incorporate the educational resources of the Web into their curriculums.
During the two-week workshop, participants significantly increased their Internet searching and programming skills, their awareness of the field of computational science, and their understanding of how issues of gender and ethnicity effect computational science. In the school year that followed the workshop, substantial increases were seen in the number of participants using computers in various educational contexts, their use of computers as an instructional tool, and the diversity and sophistication of their general computer use.
Teachers who participated in the workshop became members of an ongoing, supportive community of fellow teachers and computational scientists at Rice University who were dedicated to incorporating computer- and Internet-based educational materials into the K-12 curriculum, and about a quarter of the participants contacted went on to become technology resources or advocates in their schools.
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