![]() ![]() The calendar also includes a weeklong online hackathon called the FearLess Tech More Innovation Challenge and an on-campus technology-focused event called the iTech Inclusion Symposium. Del Rosario and student volunteers concentrate their outreach on high schools with large BIPOC populations and high numbers of potential first-generation college students. The events raise awareness about Informatics among students who otherwise might not have known it was an option. ![]() In recent years, as the UW has increasingly emphasized direct-to-major freshman admissions, High School to iSchool has become key to the school’s outreach strategy. That was the reason I applied to the major.” The event easily could have drawn more than 200 students, and del Rosario will seek a bigger space to host it next year. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, drew an overflow crowd of 130 high school students and 30 mentors, challenging them to design technologies that address issues of equity and social justice. The latest event, the Hack for Social Good in late March at the Samuel E. High School to iSchool encourages hands-on participation in activities that introduce teens to the ways Informatics students learn to solve problems and make technology work for people. The result was not only a hackathon, but a series of outreach events throughout each year that became the High School to iSchool program. It’s more impactful when the students say this is something we want.”Ī few years ago, she listened to Informatics students who wanted to start a hackathon aimed at high school students from underrepresented populations. “If our students have an idea, let’s turn it into something. “I really believe in the student voice,” said del Rosario, the University of Washington Information School’s diversity programs advisor. Cynthia del Rosario has a sure-fire strategy for getting teens excited about Informatics: Listen to iSchool students.
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