Outreach-in-a-Box: Discovering IT.
A program to strengthen and diversify the IT pipeline though outreach to middle schools. Using the box, IT professionals customize and deliver a classroom presentation and engage youth in hands-on activities that inspire and inform them about opportunities in IT.
Survey-in-a-Box: Student Experience of the Major.
A survey and associated resources for assessing, interpreting, and improving the climate of undergraduate computing departments to improve retention of and increase enrollment by all students. Box components include a survey for collecting data from undergraduates to find out what they are experiencing in the major and furnishing data to the department; directions for conducting the survey and for getting human subjects approval; department-specific analysis and recommendations; templates for presenting results to your faculty and students; and suggestions for sharing the results and taking positive action.
Mentoring-in-a-Box: Technical Women at Work
Mentoring-in-a-Box: Technical Women at Work zeros-in on challenges unique to technical women in industry settings. It also focuses on the long view: helping women survive their jobs and thrive in their careers, as well as helping them envision, plan, and take practical steps toward positions of influence and innovation. The "Box" contains strategies, activities, and tools that support a thriving and productive relationship between mentor and protégée.
Faculty Mentoring-in-a-Box: Academic Women in Computing
Women in scientific disciplines face challenges, from institutionalized bias to differences in communication styles and a lack of female role models. Faculty Mentoring-in-a-Box addresses the challenges of the computer science faculty experience. Designed to help pre-tenure faculty women prepare for the next stage of their careers and look ahead to positions of accomplishment and influence, Faculty Mentoring-in-a-Box supplies practical activities, resources, and templates to help you start and sustain a successful mentoring relationship.
International Women's Day-in-a-Box: Raising Awareness, Igniting Change
International Women's Day-in-a-Box: Raising Awareness, Igniting Change is designed to help IT companies and departments celebrate successes and address barriers to women's full participation in IT, and capitalize on women's innovative thinking and leadership potential. If your organization is eager to promote diversity in order to become globally competitive, then International Women's Day-in-a-Box is for you. Use this resource to plan company activities and events, and to establish a culture and expectation for broader diversity of thought in IT.
Computer Science-in-a-Box: Unplug Your Curriculum
Computer Science-in-a-Box: Unplug Your Curriculum introduces fundamental building blocks of computer science -- without using computers. Use it with students ages 9 to 14 to teach lessons about how computers work, while addressing critical mathematics and science concepts such as number systems, algorithms, and manipulating variables and logic. NCWIT is pleased to offer Computer Science-in-a-Box: Unplug Your Curriculum in cooperation with the authors of Computer Science Unplugged. So unplug your computer, and get ready to explore computer science!
Pipeline-in-a-Box: Promoting Advancement of CS/IT Students from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions
Pipeline-in-a-Box: Promoting Advancement of CS/IT Students from Two-Year to Four-Year Institutions outlines five steps for strengthening the relationship between faculty, administrators, and advisors at community colleges and four-year institutions in order to increase the number of students, including underrepresented groups, graduating with computer science (CS) or information technology (IT) baccalaureate degrees. Pipeline-in-a-Box provides strategies, data, templates, posters, presentations, and other resources for recruiting, transferring, and graduating students obtaining degrees in CS and IT.
Pair Programming-in-a-Box: The Power of Collaborative Learning
Pair Programming-in-a-Box is a set of resources that helps instructors of introductory college programming classes integrate pair programming into their courses. This "Box" provides validated methods for implementing pair programming, including orienting students and course staff, forming programming pairs, facilitating teamwork, assessing students' individual competency, and evaluating the effectiveness of pair programming. Pair Programming-in-a-Box supplies sample handouts for students and course staff, as well as a partner questionnaire and in-depth student survey that can be adapted to meet the particular needs of a course.
Supervising-in-a-Box Series
The Supervising-in-a-Box Series is designed to help you develop and supervise a high-performing, diverse, technical team. This box series provides guides, templates, and resources for addressing unconscious bias and institutional barriers that affect five different supervisory job functions - Employee Recruitment/Selection, Employee Development, Team/Project Management, Performance Review/Promotion Processes, and Supervisors as Agents of Change.
Roadshow-in-a-Box: Capitalizing on Models for Outreach
Roadshow-in-a-Box is a complete set of resources developed for colleges and universities wanting to establish or enhance their roadshow outreach programs. It draws on the wisdom and practices of a variety of successful roadshow programs that focus on recruiting for diversity and put trained student presenters in a leading role. The Box includes program advice, templates, and sample materials to aid your efforts in every aspect of a sustainable roadshow program. Components include: Controlled Message, Support, Ongoing School Partnerships, Trained Student Presenters, Program Activities, and Evaluation and Tracking.
NCWIT's "Programs-in-a-Box" offer turnkey solutions to pressing issues facing the IT community. Programs-in-a-Box provide all the components necessary for quick and strategic action -- right out-of-the-box. Each Box includes instructions, letters, templates, slide presentations, and other resources designed for practical use by IT professionals. Roll over the Boxes below to read descriptions and find the one that's right for you, then click a Box to download and get started.