Anca Doloc-Mihu
Georgia Gwinnett College, GA·Education Research
Many students who start out in information technology (IT) drop out of the major, and outreach can help more people choose and stay in computing careers. Georgia Gwinnett College's Technology Ambassador Program (TAP) has run since 2012.
- Fields
Education Research
Computer Science
- Topics
computing education
IT outreach
information technology
- Grants
- 1 known grant, last ended Sep 2026
What they work on
- Develop a framework for creating IT outreach activities based on more than ten years of experience in Georgia Gwinnett College's Technology Ambassador Program (TAP).
- Build a public online repository of TAP workshop activities, designed by students for K-12 and college audiences, that anyone can use for computing outreach.
- Continue using workshops as testbeds in which TAP students measure how effective their outreach is and publish their findings.
- Create a TAP alumni network that provides career development workshops for current students and helps sustain a broader IT outreach community.
More about the research
In TAP, college students design hands-on computing workshops for K-12 and college audiences with a wide range of backgrounds and prior knowledge. This project aims to package that experience so others can use it and to build a wider community devoted to IT outreach.
Why it matters
The project could help close gaps in who enters computing by giving teachers, colleges and outreach groups ready-to-use, tested IT workshop activities and a framework for creating new ones. K-12 and college students from diverse backgrounds could benefit from more engaging introductions to IT. Current TAP students would gain career support through a new alumni network.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
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