YWCA Teen Girls in Technology
We are working with the YWCA Teen Girls in Technology (TGI-Tech) program at 4 local middle schools. We are
introducing them to computing concepts using LEGO NXT robots, PicoCrickets, Alice, and Scratch. We started working with them in the spring of 2007
at two schools: Shamrock and Chapel Hill. In the fall of 2007 we also started working with Bunche. In the fall of 2008 we started working with
the Coretta Scott King Academy.
Two schools meet on Tues and Thursday (Shamrock and Chapel Hill) and two meet Tuesday and Wednesday (Bunche and the Coretta Scott King Academy)
The schools are:
- Shamrock Middle School, 17 girls, 3100 Mount Olive Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30033 (up I-85 North from Tech about 12 miles)
- Ralph Bunche Middle School, 19 girls, 1925 Niskey Lake Road, S.W. Atlanta, GA 30331 (I-75/I-85 South from Tech about 16 miles)
- Chapel Hill Middle School, 15 girls, 3535 Dogwood Farm Road, Decatur, Georgia 30034 (20 East to Candler Rd, right on Candler Rd go 4.6 miles, Right on Dogwood Farm about 17 miles total from Tech).
- Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy, 15 girls max. 1190 Northwest Drive NW Atlanta, 30318
Pre/Post Surveys
Spring 2007 YWCA TGI Tech
Fall 2007 YWCA TGI Tech
Spring 2008 YWCA TGI Tech
Fall 2008 YWCA TGI Tech
Fall 2009 YWCA TGI Tech
Fall 2010 YWCA TGI Tech
Spring 2011 YWCA TGI Tech