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Building Communities
The University of Illinois Department of Computer Science's "Building Communities" initiative received $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help recruit and retain more women and underrepresented populations in engineering into the information technology (IT) workforce. ChicTech is an integral part of this outreach effort. The "Building Communities" initiative is scaling ChicTech to span six partner schools in Illinois, sharing the ChicTech outreach model and working to create a cohesive community of collegiate women in computer science. Working together, their goal is to increase both recruitment and retention. Partners include:
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