Fostering Equity and Access to Empower Marginalized Communities through Making

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dc.contributor.authorLopez-Delgado, Maria
dc.contributor.authorLemus, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorOrdoñez, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-22T16:18:40Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-14
dc.descriptionResearch on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT),July 14–16, 2025,Newark, New Jersey
dc.description.abstractThis report discusses the need to provide mothers in low-income communities with experiences to develop the powerful skills of making. The development of a curriculum led to opportunities for the participants to develop skills like focusing on the process rather than the end product, seeing mistakes as opportunities to learn, and strengthening problem-solving and tinkering abilities. Activities were tailored to participants' interests and strengths, and encouraged the initial exploration of computing literacy and STEM ideas in an informal, fun, and creative environment with a comfortable entry point. Including creative technologies in computing community centers served as a source of confidence-building, hope, and mental health support, and inspired entrepreneurial endeavors.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was sponsored in part by the NSF BPC ECEP Alliance(NSF 2137834) through the Maryland Center for Computing Edu-cation and by the Dean’s Ofce and the Department of InformationSystems of the College of Engineering and Information Technologyat the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Thank you to theB2G leadership team, Diana Ordóñez, and Nicola Patterson for allyour support in helping make this dream a reality. Thank you tothe B2G leadership team, Nicola Patterson, and Diana Ordóñez, forall your support in helping make this dream a reality. To the B2Gparticipants, thank you for believing in this vision and for beingbrave to take this step. Thank you to the community leaders, inparticular, Ms. Phyllis Gray, Pastor Fraser, Mr. Joseph Parker, andToni Strong Pratt, and the support from the UMBC InformationSystem Department and Faculty. Finally, special thanks to MarjoryPineda for her support, careful proofreading, and editing, whichgreatly strengthened this experience report.
dc.description.urihttps://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3704637.3734764
dc.format.extent9 pages
dc.genreconference papers and proceedings
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2ooow-kxel
dc.identifier.citationLopez-Delgado, Maria, Kevin Lemus, and Patricia Ordóñez. “Fostering Equity and Access to Empower Marginalized Communities through Making.” Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, RESPECT 2025, July 14, 2025, 122–29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3704637.3734764.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1145/3704637.3734764
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/41484
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherACM
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Information Systems Department
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Student Collection
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectUMBC Interactive Systems Research Center
dc.subjectUMBC Human-Centered Computing Program
dc.titleFostering Equity and Access to Empower Marginalized Communities through Making
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dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0009-0003-3189-6540
dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0009-0002-3938-2598

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