Legal Reasoning and STEM Skills
Women in different parts of world have challenges in terms of access to educution.
Studies have shown that women statistically tend to have higher verbal skills than men. The proposed solution applies legal reasoning, with its emphasizes verbal skills, to perspectives on news ways to introduce STEM coursework.
In communities where women have limited access to education resources, the solution may encourage communities to use this solution in that it may help communities gain legal resources for addressing issues in government.
A key example is for the introduction of conditional loops from computer science. If a law says that a person will receive a benefit for every time a specific action takes place, this can be presented with what is called a loop invariant:
...An action will go in a circular motion for the specific benefit being received for the specific action.
When there is an exception to the law or rule, there is the conditional loop where this circular action ends because of the exception to the rule. This is an example of a DO UNTIL loop.
Exception to Rule in Loop Process
The loop and the conditional controlled loop are used in computer programming. The theoretical nature of both are explained by the theory of algorithms.
The solution helps women in terms of access to STEM courses as well as communities with limited legal resources.
The idea appears to be innovative. From what has been researched, the notion of the loop invariant and its analogy to law appears to be a new idea for a way to introduce computer science to women.
- Support K-12 educators in effectively teaching and engaging girls in STEM in classroom or afterschool settings.
- Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model, but which is not yet serving anyone
It is an existing online course.
It could clearly help many communities.
No, the Team Lead is not connected to communities in which the project is based.
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The notion of loops in computer science appears to be an innovative analogy for connecting the verbal skills found in the learning of law to the analytical skills found in STEM courses.
The impact goals are for women who take the courses being able to succeed in STEM courses at a greater rate than if they didn't take the online course.
The measurement for achieving the goals would be the academic success of the students who took the online course in terms of success in the later STEM courses.
In simple terms, the expectation of the solution is that it will have the impact of allowing women, who take the online course of the proposed solution, to have greater academic success than the success they would have had if they didn't take take the online course.
Loops in computer science is the core technology in the solution.
- A new application of an existing technology
- Software and Mobile Applications
- Not registered as any organization
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Because it is an online course, people from diverse cultures will be needed as translators for the course.
The business model is that of a system of minimal expense, because it is an online course. At this point, the technology is self-funded. However, the business model is for grants to sustain the project much like the business model for public television in the United States.
- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
The goal for financial sustainability is to contact foundations in order to start the process of grant applications. The proposed sustainability of the project is much like how public television in the US is able to maintain sustainability.