This paper explores the use of a constructivist 21st-century learning model to implement a week-long workshop, delivered as a "hackathon," to encourage preuniversity teenagers to pursue careers in STEM, with a particular emphasis on computer science. For Irish preuniversity students, their experience of computing can vary from word…

Examined differences in attainment, subject choice, attitudes toward career and family, interest and confidence in traditional and nontraditional occupations, and psychological variables between adolescent girls (n=240) categorized as careerist or noncareerist. Findings suggest that work orientation and importance of life domains may be useful…