Welcome to the SIGCSE NSF Showcase!

Every year, twenty projects that are currently being sponsored by NSF are asked to present their work in an interactive, personal format during the break sessions and open slots at SIGCSE. The SIGCSE Symposium provides a forum for educators from K-12 through college to discuss issues and new ideas related to the development and implementation of computing curricula, along with other elements of teaching and pedagogy. The goal of the showcase is to share information about programs and research opportunities that attendees might not otherwise hear about. Presenters in the showcase report that they enjoy presenting their work in this format and that the attendees that come through the showcase are interested in learning and interacting with the presenters.

Interested in presenting in 2017?

Posted by Mark Sherriff on March 1, 2016
If you are interested in presenting at SIGCSE 2017 in Seattle, WA, email Mark Sherriff at sherriff@virginia.edu for more information!


Presentations for 2016

Posted by Mark Sherriff on March 1, 2016
NSF Showcase Program 2016
The presentation schedule for the 2016 Showcase is as follows:
Time slot Presenters & Titles
Thursday
morning,
10:00‑11:00
  • CrowdGrader: Peer grading with incentives, Luca de Alfaro (UC Santa Cruz)
  • Project MLExAI: An Innovative Model for Teaching Core AI Concepts, Ingrid Russell, Zdravko Markov, and Susan Imberman (College of Staten Island)
  • Computing in the Arts: Community Building and Curriculum Development, Jennifer Burg (Wake Forest Univ.)
  • C5 - Catalyzing Computing and Cybersecurity in Community Colleges, Melissa Jane Dark (Purdue), Beth Hawthorne (Union County College), and Corrinne Sande (Whatcom Community College)
Thursday
afternoon
3:00‑4:00
  • Bringing Real-World Data And Visualizations Into Data Structures Courses Using BRIDGES, Kalpathi Subramanian, Jamie Payton, David Burlinson, Mihai Mehedint (UNC Charlotte)
  • CSoftware Tutors for Introductory Programming: Epplets, Codelets and Problets, Amruth N. Kumar (Ramapo College of New Jersey) [Handout] | [Slides]
  • Customizable Visualizations for Introducing Database Concepts to Many Majors, Suzanne W. Dietrich (Arizona State Univ.) and Don Goelman (Villanova Univ.) [Handout]
  • Transforming Computer Science Education Research Through Use of Appropriate Empirical Research Methods: Mentoring and Tutorials, Jeffrey Carver (Univ. of Alabama), Sarah Heckman (NC State Univ.), and Mark Sherriff (Univ. of Virginia) [Handout]
Friday
morning
10:00‑11:00
  • Integrating Mobile Computing and Security into a Computer Science Curriculum, Xiaohong Yuan, Kenneth Williams, Jinsheng Xu, and Kelvin Bryant (NC A&T Univ.)
  • CS1: Creative Computation in the Context of Art and Visual Media, Dianna Xu (Bryn Mawr College), Ira Greenberg (Southern Methodist Univ.), Deepak Kumar (Bryn Mawr College), Aaron Cadle (Fort Worth Country Day School) and Ursula Wolz (RiverSound Solutions)
  • Collaborative Education: Building a Skilled Software Verification and Validation User Community, Sushil Acharya, Priyadarshan Manohar, and Peter Wu (Robert Morris Univ.) [Poster] | [Handout]
  • Supporting Student Learning in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) Projects, Heidi J. C. Ellis (Western New England Univ.), Darci Burdge (Nassau CC), Gregory W. Hislop (Drexel Univ.)
Friday
afternoon
3:00‑4:00
  • Increasing Retention in Engineering and Computer Science with a Focus on At-Risk First Year and Sophomore Students, Tammy VanDeGrift (Univ. of Portland) [Handout]
  • Bolstering Security Education in Browser Security, Wenliang Du (Syracuse Univ.), Li Yang (UT Chattanooga), Xiaohong Yuan (NC A&T Univ.)
  • On Beyond Sudoku: Pencil Puzzles as an Engaging Problem Domain for Intro CS, Zack Butler and Ivona Bezakova (Rochester Inst. of Tech.)
  • Computational Creativity to Improve CS Education, Leen-Kiat Soh and Duane Shell (Univ. of Nebraska) [Poster] | [Handout]
Saturday
morning
10:00‑11:00
  • Bringing a Rigorous CS Principles Course to the Largest School System in the U.S., Dan Garcia (UC Berkeley), Brian Harvey (UC Berkeley), Tiffany Barnes (NC State), June Mark (EDC), E. Paul Goldenberg (EDC)
  • Patternlets and TSGL: CSinParallel Tools for Visualizing Parallel Behavior, Joel C. Adams (Calvin College), Richard Brown (St. Olaf College), Elizabeth Shoop (Mcalester College) [Poster] | [Handout]
  • Computing in the Arts: Multidisciplinary I, Susan Reiser and Rebecca Bruce (UNC Asheville) [Poster] | [Handout]
  • Collaborative Project: Building Virtual Research, Interactive, Service, and Experiential Learning Modules for Cyber Security Education, Feng Li (Purdue)


Contact Info

NSF Showcase Organizers
Prof. Aaron Bloomfield
- Univ. of Virginia

Prof. Mark Sherriff
- Univ. of Virginia

Links and Materials

Previous Year Presenters