Focusing high school teachers on attracting diverse students to computer science and engineering

An effective workshop has been developed for promoting a positive impact on high school teachers' recruitment of students, particularly women and minority students, into their CS classes. All past workshop attendees indicate they now are actively try to recruit girls and minority students into their computing classes and are successful in doing so.

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