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Modification And Assessment Of A Residential Summer Program For High School Women, Aimee Cloutier, Guo Zheng Yew, Siddhartha Gupta, Kalpani Dissanayake, Paula Monaco, Susan Mengel, Audra Morse

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

The importance of reducing the gender gap in engineering programs by recruiting and retaining female students is well recognized. Although women hold roughly half of all jobs in the United States, only 24% of STEM jobs are occupied by women. The problem is even more pronounced for engineering, where women held about 12% of jobs as of 2013 (Corbett & Hill, 2015). Consequently, interactive, hands-on outreach programs are a common tool used by universities to encourage interest in engineering from K–12 students. Engineering—Get Into Real Learning (E-GIRL) is a week-long, residential summer program offered by Texas Tech University for female …