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The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details

Jakita Thomas


Affidivation:

Spelman College

NSF Directorate:

EDU

Gender:

F

Award Year:

2013

Citation:

For her research on how African-American middle-school girls develop computational algorithmic thinking within the context of designing games, a research project that explores the challenges those girls face and their self-perceptions of themselves as problem-solvers while at the same time educating them in mathematics, programming and reasoning.

 

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