Spring 2012 STARS Computing Corps
1 Institutional Information
Columbus State University
1.1 Institutional Demographics
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Spring 2012 STARS Computing Corps
Classification:_ Associate's Colleges
_ Doctorate-granting Universities
_ Master's Colleges and Universities
_ Baccalaureate Colleges
_ Tribal Colleges
_ Special Focus Institutions
_ Historically Black College or University
_ Hispanic-Serving Institution
_ Women’s College or University / Full-Time student enrollment in computing department:
_ Less than 500 students
_ Between 501 – 2,000 students
_ Between 2,001 – 5,000 students
_ Between 5,001 – 10,000 students
_ Between 10,001 – 20,000 students
_ More than 20,000 students
Percentage of women students in computing departments:
11 % / Percentage of under-represented minority students in computing departments:
23 %
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Spring 2012 STARS Computing Corps
2 Faculty or Staff
Fall 2015Academic Liaison: / Radhouane Chouchane
Assistant Professor
TSYS School of Computer Science
SLC Leaders: / Hillary Fleenor, Grad
Savannah Sosa, Undergrad
Britni Alexander, Grad
Jaccob Mobbs, Undergrad
Dominique Tillman, Undergrad
Michelle Postma, Grad
Kaleb Corcoran, Undergrad
Chanethia Davis, Undergrad
Evaluation Assistant: / Hillary G. Fleenor, Grad
Spring 2016
Academic Liaison: / Radhouane Chouchane
Assistant Professor
TSYS School of Computer Science
SLC Leaders / Hillary Fleenor, Grad
Savannah Sosa, Undergrad
Britni Alexander, Grad
Jaccob Mobbs, Undergrad
Dominique Tillman, Undergrad
Kaleb Corcoran, Undergrad
Chanethia Davis, Undergrad
Evaluation Assistant / Hillary G. Fleenor, Grad
3 STARS Leadership Corps
· Provide support for departmental activities that promote the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in computing. This includes peer tutoring, providing campus tours to incoming students from the area, leadership roles in the Columbus State Chapter of ACM, research and research-based competitions, as well as doing presentations at Visitation Day and around Columbus area to introduce them to the area of computer science and to the career and lifestyle benefits of getting a degree in computer science. This also includes helping with field trips and Lego competition events.
· Organize events to help recruit and retain women and minorities in computing. This includes events for both children and adults.
· Provide opportunities for STARS members to build leadership and organizational skills as well as add quality experiences to their resumes.
3.1 Successes:
Our Corps leaders get students involved on campus. Our mission this year was creating a recognized student group for STARS. Much of our effort went into designing a constitution and taking the necessary steps to become an official student organization on campus. We applied for a grant and plan to begin fundraising for a community web development event for women in the spring. We also continued to help with departmental efforts.
3.2 Lessons learned:
· We tried to move our meetings online to a Slack channel. We initially had good success, but as the semester progressed and our members got busy, they forgot to check the channel. We plan to go back to monthly on campus meetings.
· We learned not to depend on a single point of advertising. We tried to have a web development class for women in October, but were relying on one influential person to send out communications about the event. When that person ended out too busy our registration was too low to have the event.
· We learned that collaborations with other groups can have pitfalls as well as benefits. Our ACM chapter has had a lot of problems this semester due to a class between the leadership and the membership. We had trouble keeping some of the negativity out of our group.
3.3 Community Building & Computing Identity
Now that we are an official student organization we plan to recruit members from outside of computer science, reaching out to other student disciplines that can benefit from learning technology skills. We applied for a grant that will get us group tshirts and materials to build a table display to take to campus events and advertise our group.
3.4 SLC Participation & Organization
Columbus State's Corps currently has eight student leaders including one female student to serve as Evaluation Assistant for the Corps. Columbus State's Corps is managed by the Academic Liaison, who takes part in locating presentation opportunities for Corps leaders, calls meetings, responds to student concerns and questions about their duties as leaders, and solicits computer science majors to see if they would be interested in joining our team.
Columbus State's Corps is also supported by the School's administration and Chairperson, who tirelessly works on finding new opportunities for the students to get engaged in the community, inspire their peers, and grow as students of the sciences. Columbus State's Corps leaders primarily do presentations about computer science to incoming students and to K12 students as well as outreach events. This year the focus is on women in computing. The tutoring work that the students do on campus is supported by the TSYS School of Computer Science. The presentations that students do on campus and around the Columbus, GA area are supported by STARS funding.
Outreach Projects – This semester STARS students helped with CSU Discovery Days and the First Lego League Regional Competition
Internships – One STARS undergraduate student had an Internship over the summer. One STARS graduate student is in an Internship to employment position as a web designer. One STARS graduate student is in a Research Fellowship position with the Consortium of Universities working as IT support for research projects.
Institutionalization – The CSU STARS SLC is now a recognized student organization.
Sustainability – Our STARS groups is integrated into the CS department. In addition, as a recognized student organization we hope to recruit student from outside the department that have an interest in technology.
Do you have an SLC course established? / o NODo you have an SLC student organization established? / o YES
Are your SLC stipend recipients leaders of other non-stipend SLC student volunteers/ambassadors? / o YES
What tools do you use for outreach? / o Lego Robotics
o CS Unplugged
o Scratch
o Alice
o Other (specify): TouchDevelop, AppInventor, Kano Computers, Rails, Django
STARS Leadership Corps Details ALL THREE TABLES ARE REQUIRED
SLC Participation by Ethnicity and Gender
SLC Participants / Grad
Females / UG
Females / Grad
Males / UG Males / Total
African American / 1 / 1 / 4
Asian / 1 / 1
Caucasian / 2 / 2 / 1
Hispanic / 2
Native American &
Pacific Islander / 0
Total / 4 / 2 / 0 / 5 / 8
SLC Project Types / # SLC Students
K-12 Outreach / 2
Community Service / 8
Mentoring / 4
Research / 4
Internship / 2
Marketing
2016 Celebration Participation Planned
# Faculty/Staff / 1
# SLC Attendees / 6
# SLC Posters / 1
# SLC Talks / 0
# Faculty Talks / 0
/ SLC Details
# SLC stipends & amounts / 5
# SLC with no stipends / 3
SLC Meeting Frequency / Once at the beginning of the semester, then online
SLC Meeting Attendance / 8
# Returning & #New SLC / 5 returning & 3 new
3.5 SLC Outreach Events and Impact
3.5.1 SLC Outreach Activities and Participation
THIS TABLE IS REQUIRED Please pull from Activity Form the students fill out. Include Mentoring activities if completed.
Fall 2014
Primary audience attendee informationOutreach Activity & Description (including CSDT used) / # of attendees / Primary audience - Grade level or role (e.g. 7th grade, middle, high, parent, teacher, counselor) / Ethnicity and gender / # and frequency / Duration of one visit (aka SLC time spent) / Total contact hours with each attendee
CSU CS Tutoring / 60 / 60 Undergraduate and graduate students / %20 AA, %75 W,
%2 OTHER / 60 students, 1 times a week each, for 16 weeks
(60 students x1 x 16 weeks)=160 meetings / 30 minutes / .5x16 = 8 Hours
Gregory P. Domin Conference (November 14, 2014) / 75 / Conference attendees / N/A / 1 visit / 1.5 hours / 1.5 Hours
ACM Mid-southeast Conference (November 12-13, 2014 ) / 70 / Presentation of research / N/A / 1 visit / 16 hours / 16 Hours
ISECON conference (November 5-7, 2015) / 40 / Presentation of research / N/A / 1 visit / 24 hours / 24 Hours
Connect JS (October 16 – 17, 2015) / 700 / Conference attendance / Only 100 of the 700 attendees were women / 1 visit / 16 hours / 16 Hours
Discovery Day (November 14, 2014) / 30 / Community Wide Program Expo / N/A / 1 visit / 1 hour / 1 Hours
HackCSU (October 10-11, 2014) / 40 / Community and CSU students / N/A / 1 visit / 48 hours / 48 Hours
Lego League Regional Competition (November 21, 2015) / 50 / CSU students and community / N/A / 1 visit / 6 hours / 6 Hours
Tutoring at Spencer High School for AP CS exam / 10 / Spencer High students / 100% AA male / 2/ week all semester / 1 hour / 30 hours
RubyConf 2015 / 400 / Conference Attendees / N/A / 1 visit / 24 hours / 24 hours
Total / 1065 / 1065 Outreach Participants
67 Outreach Events
Outreach Hours
Total Contact Hours
3.5.2 Events for STARS Leadership Corps Students
Event Title / Location / # SLC / DescriptionGregory P. Domin Graduate Research Conference / Campus / 1 / SLC student presented research at this conference
ACM Mid-southeast Research Conference / Gatlinburg, TN / 1 / SLC student presented research
Discovery Days / Campus / 2 / SLC students interacted with prospective CS students
ISECON Conference / Orlando, FL / 2 / SLC student presented research at this conference
First Lego League Regionals / Campus / 1 / SLC Student helped with robotics competition
Connect JS / Campus / 3 / SLC students represented STARS at industry conference
Hack CSU / Campus / 1 / SLC Students participated in hackathon, 2nd place winner
CSU CS Tutoring / Campus / 6 / SLC students tutored CSU CS students
CS Tutoring at Spencer High School / Columbus, GA / 1 / SLC student tutoring HS students for CS AP exam
RubyConf / San Antonio, TX / 1 / SLC Student gave lightning talk on getting a job in Web Dev
4 SLC Partnerships
List your SLC Partners (Community, K-12, Industry, Partnership development); asterisk new partners formed this term. Name them and indicate if newly developed this term.
Type: (industry, professional assoc, community, k12) / Name of Organization / City, State / New this term? (yes/no)Community / Hack CSU / Col., GA / No
Community
Community
Community / ACM Student Chapter
Women Who Code*
Rails Girls* / Col., GA
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA / No
Yes
Yes
Community
Community / CSU Student Government Association
Connect JS* / Col., GA
Atlanta, GA / No
Yes
5 SLC PRACTICES COLLECTION IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY
For each semester, enumerate each specific practice with a brief description in the table below that will go into the Digital Library (http://www.bpcportal.org/bpc/collections/slcp/). The STARS Resource Submission Form is located on our website.
Submitted On or Planned / Submitter / Title of Resource / URL / Description6 External Support and Dissemination
6.1 Grants
Applied for NCWIT seed fund
6.2 Dissemination (Publications, News and Radio articles, Presentations)
Please list all dissemination activities in a citation format. (e.g. who, what, where, when). Indicate those with students with an asterisk (*), students ONLY with (**).
NOTE: Delete section titles for types that do not apply; you may add new titles for other types of publications if needed.
Dissemination Venue / Brief description / Citation / Fall / SpringYouTube Video – required for all schools / The video is being prepared by SLC Leaders.
Your own SLC Website – required for all schools / http://csc.columbusstate.edu/chouchane/STARS_SITE/Home.html / X / X
Refereed Conference Proceedings / Dominique Tillman and Hillary Fleenor. Work in Progress: Creating Study Tools using Interactive Narrative and
ConceptNet. ISECON 2015. / X
Abstract Refereed Papers or Posters in Conference Proceedings / Kaleb Corcoran. STARS Computing Corps: Diversity in Technology. ACM Mid-southeast Research Conference 2015. / X
Posters (not refereed)
News Articles
Radio Programs
Podcasts
Presentations about STARS
Materials (Presentations, posters, handouts) developed for outreach K-12, teachers, counselors
7 Curricular & Co-Curricular Integration
Columbus State’s SLC has been recruiting existing student leaders (high-achieving students, honors students, students who are already members of student organizations, such as the Student Government Association, the ACM Student Chapter, the Honors Students, etc). These students have shown an extraordinary ability at integrating the mission and the values of STARS into the organizations in which they are members. They have taken what they have learned as STARS leaders (esp. the need for outreach and the need for diversifying the computing landscape), and are now implementing it within the other student organizations.
Our aim is to think of STARS as an idea whose time has come. We aim recruit those tireless students who are excited about this idea, who will carry it with them, and who will spread it. It is this sort of excitement about the STARS idea that will help us with our current endeavors as a STARS Corps, and at making STARS a permanent idea who time has come, and which started as a STARS Leadership Corps in the Fall of 2011.
7.1 SLC Recruiting and Sustainability
Our recruiting and dissemination methods are handled at the level of the SLC leaders, and at the level of the TSYS School of Computer Science. Our Corps is working closely with the TSYS School of Computer Science, and with the ACM Student Chapter, to host recruiting events for CS students, and potentially STARS Leaders. Current STARS Leaders are quickly informed, by the TSYS School of Computer Science and by the ACM Student Chapter, of the various outreach, research, and mentoring opportunities that are available on campus in our area, see Section 3.5. STARS Leaders partake in these events by presenting the STARS idea, and encouraging their prospective classmates to be part of the movement. Additionally, as new official student organization we hope to expand recruiting to students in other departments with an interest in technology.
7.2 Pair programming
Although some courses (e.g. 1301L) allow students to work together on lab assignments, none are currently using pair programming methods.
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