CAFÉ, the Collaboration And Facilitation Environment, is being developed as part of a pilot project, “Broadening Participation in Computing via Community Journalism for Middle Schoolers”. This project is funded through a grant, Grant Number CNS 0739173, from the National Science Foundation’s Broadening Participation in Computing program directed by Dr. Janice Cuny.
The project is designed to increase awareness and participation in the computing disciplines by exposing middle school students in interactive journalism. It includes an Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers (IJIMS), an intensive five-day immersive workshop in the summer followed by a yearlong after school club, where the students and their teachers create an online magazine to learn computational thinking via interactive graphics, digital media, animation, video, text-based journalism, and software concepts in a collaborative setting.
Café is designed to manage the content and workflow to support IJIMS. Authorization is required to access any part of the system. For more information, visit http://www.tcnj.edu/~ijims.