The Tablet February 2, 2021
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BAY RIDGE Fontbonne Hall, The Lab School for Girls, has earned the College Board’s 2020 AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for expanding young women’s access to Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles (CSP). Fontbonne was one of 831 schools to be nationally recognized for this achievement.
This honor also acknowledges the work Fontbonne is doing to engage more students in computer science and to close the gender gap. According to the National Girls Collaborative Project, women only earn 18% of computer science bachelor’s degrees and account for 28% of the science and engineering workforce.
Six Mississippi schools earn AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award
News Highlights: Six Mississippi schools earn AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award. Posted: Jan 28, 2021/1137 CST / Updated: Jan 28, 2021/1137 CST
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Six schools in Mississippi have earned the College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science A (CSA) and / or AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). Schools that have been awarded the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have expanded girls’ access to AP computer science courses.
Of the 20,000 institutions that offer AP courses, these six schools are among the 1,119 that achieve either 50% or more female representation in one of the two AP computer science courses or a percentage of female computer scientists that that of the female students of the meet or exceed school. population during the 2019-2020 school year:
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