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From Middle School to Industry Vertical Integration to Inspire Interest in Computational Thinking

PI Massood Towhidnejad

While students typically do not see immediate advantages of the topics being studies, top down integration exposes students to larger, more complex projects, giving them better appreciation for topics as they realize the “big picture.”

Funded by the National Science Foundation, this research seeks to vertically integrate software development best practices from industry to graduate, undergraduate, high school, and middle school academic programs, with the intention of increasing student interest in computing and computational thinking. Additional information is available at http://www.MT-Research.org.

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Tags: electrical and computer engineering software engineering

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