Keynote: A decade of broadening participation with STARS

It has been ten years since we envisioned the STARS Alliance. We started as 10 Southeastern schools focused on regional partnerships and institutionalization of best practices, with specific focus on mentoring, high school outreach, research, and pair programming. Our intent was to build a vertical and horizontal community of “like” students that extends beyond the classroom walls. The field of computing has dramatically changed in the past decade, and so has STARS. We are now over 50 colleges and universities nationwide. We continue to effectively engage in mentoring, outreach and research — now augmenting these practices by invention, entrepreneurship, open source and an explosion in interdisciplinary applications for computer science. This talk is a retrospective of how STARS and best practices for broadening participation have changed, with suggestions for how best practices could evolve in the future.