document: Building an effective computer science student organization : the Carnegie Mellon Women@SCS action plan This paper aims to provide a practical guide for building a student organization and designing activities and events that can encourage and support a community of women in computer science . This guide is based on our experience in building Women@SCS, a community of women in the School of Computer Science -LRB- SCS -RRB- at Carnegie Mellon University . Rather than provide an abstract `` to-do '' or `` must-do '' list , we present a sampling of concrete activities and events in the hope that these might suggest possibilities for a likeminded student organization . However , since we have found it essential to have a core group of activist students at the helm , we provide a `` to-do '' list of features that we feel are essential for forming , supporting and sustaining creative and effective student leadership
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extractive_keyphrases: computer science student organization women carnegie mellon university student leadership
abstractive_keyphrases: women@scs action plan gender issues computer science education