Project: Computing Educators Oral History Project (CEOHP)
Project Leader: Barbara Boucher Owens

The goal of CEOHP is to collect oral histories from a diverse set of computing educators, with balance across factors such as gender, continent, ethnicity, and type of institution. The official start of this project was a working group at the 10th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, which culminated in a report that outlined the goals and procedures for the project ["Building a Sense of History: Narratives and Pathways of Women Computing Educators", Almstrum, V., Barker, L., Owens, B., et al. inroads - the SIGCSE Bulletin,Volume 37, Number 4, 2005 December, pp. 173-189.] In addition to the goal of preserving the history of pioneers in computing education, a key focus is a "stairway" of narratives that can provide role models for all levels of the pipeline, from pre-college through university and on to all stages of a computing education career. For more information about CEOHP, please visit the website at http://www.ceohp.org/

Project: The Ada Project (TAP)
Project Leader: Ellen Spertus

The Ada Project (TAP) - named in honor of Ada Lovelace - is designed to serve as an online clearinghouse for information and resources related to women in computing. The site includes pertinent information on conferences, projects, discussion groups, organizations, fellowships, and positions. Wherever possible, TAP includes links to existing on-line papers and informational sites, rather than duplicating information locally.

Project: ACM-W Student Chapters
Project Leader: Paula Gabbert

ACM-W Chapter Requirements
ACM-W Chapters and Activities

In the 1999-2000 fiscal year, ACM-W created a program for initiating and supporting ACM-W chapters in colleges and universities worldwide. The goal of the chapters is to recruit and retain women students in undergraduate and graduate computing programs. The chapters provide a variety of activities to educate women about the opportunities in the field of computing, engage women students in exciting computing activities, connect students with women leaders in the field, encourage students to promote the field of computing to young girls, and promote the activities of ACM. For those many institutions that already offer informal mentoring programs with similar goals and activities, formalizing these groups into ACM-W chapters can provide additional resources and networking opportunities.

ACM-W in coordination with the ACM Local Activities Coordinator, Fran Sinart, developed an ACM-W Chapter start up kit to help institutions begin their own chapter. Membership is open to all students and faculty interested in the recruitment and retention of women in the field. Although the goals and objectives for all chapters are similar, the activities for each chapter are suited to the individual institution. Activities may include inviting speakers from academia and industry to speak on their work or on the subject of women in computing, coordinating career fairs with women in computing, organizing informal gatherings of students, faculty, and/or industry leaders, coordinating mentoring programs for undergraduate and graduate students, assisting with computer camps for K-12 girls, and/or providing information sessions during registration. In addition, the chapters are being asked to develop websites to display chapter activities and to provide additional resources available through the ACM-W and other organizations promoting women in computing. ACM-W is currently exploring ways to expand this program to universities outside of the United States.