document: A conference 's impact on undergraduate female students In September of 2000 , the 3rd Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was held in Cape Cod , Massachusetts . Along with a colleague from a nearby university , we accompanied seven of our female undergraduate students to this conference . This paper reports on how the conference experience immediately affected these students - what impressed them , what scared them , what it clarified for them . It also reports on how the context in which these students currently evaluate their ability , potential and opportunity in computer science is different now from what it was before the conference . Hopefully , by understanding their experience , we can gain some insight into things we can do for all of our undergraduate female students to better support their computer science and engineering education
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extractive_keyphrases: undergraduate female students engineering education conference
abstractive_keyphrases: computer science education gender issues