SCIP: a self-paced, community-based summer coding program creates community and increases coding confidence, lessons learned from the pandemic.

ABSTRACT: In 2020, many students lost summer opportunities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wanted to offer students an opportunity to learn computational skills and be part of a community while they were stuck at home. Because the pandemic was very isolating, it was important to support students to learn and build community online. We used lessons learned from literature and our own experience to design, run and test an online program for students called the Science Coding Immersion Program (SCIP). In our program, students worked in small teams for 8 hours a week spread over the week, with one participant as the team leader and Zoom host. Teams worked on an online R or Python class at their own pace with support on Slack from the organizing team. For motivation and career advice, we hosted a weekly

SUBMITTER: Reyes RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9810221 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature