Students can explore and create buildings and exhibits in online 3D worlds.

Worlds for Internet Technology and Science (WITS)

Cornell University is leading a Demonstration Project for Broadening Participation in Computing exploring an innovative approach to attracting women and underrepresented minorities to computing fields. This NSF-funded project, BPC-DP: Worlds for Information Technology and Science (WITS) has four key components:

• CYFair, an associated service-outreach program that brings college students into middle school mentorship roles.
• A service learning curriculum that incorporates CYFair as its lab component. This curriculum, developed at Cornell, will be taught for undergraduates and non-traditional students at Boston College.
• Four university Trial Sites, including Cornell, to ensure scalability and adaptability of the program developed.
• Research into the efficacy of our approach.