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New grant: Gender-inclusive open source through gender-inclusive tools

“Open source software is changing the technology and workforce landscape. Our work will help open source software tools and technology support diverse cognitive styles that will help bring diversity in thought by enabling diversity in open source contributors.”  – Anita Sarma, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Oregon State. Principal […]

Teaching computer science concepts with Connect Four and more

Researchers at Oregon State University are taking an innovative approach to teaching computer science concepts to middle school students using tabletop games such as Connect Four and Battleship. Working in partnership with teachers and administrators at Linus Pauling Middle School in Corvallis, Oregon, the team will develop and investigate a new curriculum to teach algorithmic […]