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A program greater than the sum of its parts: the BPC alliances

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Changing the trajectory of participation in computing for students at various stages of development.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 3
      March 2011
      116 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/1897852
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