Outreach in K-12 Programming: A Systematic Literature Review on Audience and Purpose

Outreach Programs are informal educational initiatives that schools and universities, as well as companies and associations, promote: they represent a significant variety of courses and camps for learners, whether students or teachers. In this paper we provide an overview of the publications on Outreach Programs in K-12 Programming, in the last decade 2011-2021. The survey methodology adopted is the Systematic Literature Review: we classified the papers around two different axis, the audience and purpose of the Outreach Programs.