Caption: Students in the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars (WES) program in the computer sciences learn how a piece of Java code works by acting out the different variables. The unique University of Wisconsin-Madison program, led by computer science professor Susan Horwitz, combines active recruiting and mentoring to encourage more women, students of color and students from rural communities to pursue a computer science major. Students in the introductory programming course are (from left to right): Asia Comeau, Daniel Strommen, Stephanie Arndt, David Hoffert, Madalina Tivis and Renata Aryanti.
Photo by: courtesy Bob Rashid
Date: May 2006
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