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Campaigns

NCWIT’s education and outreach campaigns have targeted a range of audiences and are designed to shatter stereotypes, garner attention, and accelerate existing efforts.

  • Improving Computer Science Education in K-12 schools offers tremendous potential. The growing IT job market requires young people with computational thinking abilities and strong technical skills, but our schools are not providing students with the necessary computer science education. Use these data about IT jobs and computer science education, disaggregated by state and congressional district, to make the case where you live.
  • Gotta Have IT is an all-in-one resource set – including posters, computing and career information, digital media, and reference links – designed for educators to build student awareness of and interest in computing. Produced by the NCWIT K-12 Alliance and launched with 4,000 give-away packets at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in 2007.
  • The NCWIT Entrepreneurial Research Series is a set of five papers and accompanying blogs that review current research and literature on women and IT entrepreneurship. Authored by senior research scientists William Aspray and J. McGrath Cohoon, the series was produced with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
  • NCWIT Entrepreneurial Heroes and NCWIT Entrepreneurial Toolbox are series of magazine-style audio interviews highlighting entrepreneurs in information technology (IT) careers. Listen as women and men IT entrepreneurs discuss their lives and their work -- as well as topics such as what it's like to be a woman in IT, and fundamentals of success such as how to network, write a business plan, or get funded.
  • NCWIT has partnered with a network of companies to celebrate International Women’s Day as an opportunity to publicize, promote, and improve women’s participation in IT, with a campaign that includes events, live-blogging, links, and resources for planning your own celebration. 
  • Counselors for Computing (C4C) is a four-year campaign designed to equip school counselors with the information and resources they need to advise students, especially girls, to pursue education and careers in computing and information technology. C4C is sponsored by the Merck Company Foundation and the NCWIT K-12 Alliance.

 

Strategic partners
National Science Foundation Microsoft Bank of America
our investment partners
Avaya Pfizer Merck Turner