Outreach that considers underrepresented groups has become one particular push to increase participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math‐related disciplines, with Computer Science and Software Engineering representing one particular domain. We describe our outreach programming employing the micro:bit microcontroller environment for hands‐on software development and how students change their high‐level domain knowledge and attitudes. We find that overall, students were gaining general knowledge and slight increases in their positive attitudes towards a computer science‐related post‐secondary education. We also find differences between incoming knowledge level groups and self‐perception as well as performance differences. We also note a slight majority of students indicated that they liked our approach and that the utilization of the micro:bit microcontroller overall was worthwhile. Future iterations of our programming will utilize these findings and add additional data gathering efforts supplanting the current pre‐ and posttest instruments.

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向代表性不足的高中生介绍软件工程：使用 micro:bit 微控制器对连接的自动驾驶汽车进行编程

考虑代表性不足的群体的外展已成为增加对科学、技术、工程和数学相关学科的参与的一种特殊推动力，其中计算机科学和软件工程代表了一个特定领域。我们描述了我们使用 micro:bit 微控制器环境进行动手软件开发的外展编程，以及学生如何改变他们的高级领域知识和态度。我们发现，总体而言，学生获得了一般知识，并且对计算机科学相关的专上教育的积极态度略有增加。我们还发现传入知识水平组和自我认知之间的差异以及绩效差异。我们还注意到，少数学生表示他们喜欢我们的方法，并且总体上使用 micro:bit 微控制器是值得的。我们编程的未来迭代将利用这些发现并增加额外的数据收集工作，以取代当前的前测和后测仪器。