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SIGCSE Report

SIGCSE Report. Update to ACM Education Council 2 nd November 2013. New Board. Chair: Susan H. Rodger Vice Chair: Paul Tymann Secretary: Judy Sheard Treasurer: Amber Settle At-Large Members Tiffany Barnes Alison Clear Sue C. Fitzgerald

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SIGCSE Report

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  1. SIGCSE Report Update to ACM Education Council 2nd November 2013

  2. New Board • Chair: Susan H. RodgerVice Chair: Paul TymannSecretary: Judy SheardTreasurer: Amber Settle • At-Large MembersTiffany BarnesAlison ClearSue C. Fitzgerald • Also serving on the Board will beImmediate Past Chair: Renee McCauley

  3. SIGCSE Symposium • SIGCSE Symposium venues • 2014 Atlanta • Travel grant • Kids camp • Heads and New Faculty workshops to alternate • Looking at conference being more than CS1 & CS2 • 2015 Kansas City • 2016 Memphis • 2017 out west somewhere

  4. SIGCSE Symposium 2013, Denver • Best Paper “Retaining 18-30% more Majors with a Trio of Instructional Best Practices in CS1” Leo Porter, Skidmore College & Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego

  5. ITiCSE Canterbury, Kent, UK • Best paper “Voice interactive learning: A framework and evaluation” M. del Puerto Paule-Ruiz, Victor M. Álvarez-García & Juan-Ramon Pérez-Pérez (University of Oviedo, Spain), MoisésRiestra-González (Accenture Analytics, Spain)

  6. ITiCSE venues • ITiCSE • 2013 Canterbury, UK • 2014 Uppsala, Sweden • 2015 Vilnius, Lithuania • 2016 Arequipa, Peru • 2017 Europe, possibly Finland • 2018 India? Canada?

  7. ICER Best Paper • Chairs award “Exploring Hypotheses about Media Computation” Mark Guzdial • People’s Choice (John Henry award) “In-Game Assessments Increase Novice Programmers’ Engagement and Level Completion Speed” Michael Lee, Andrew Ko, Irwin Kwan

  8. ICER • ICER venues • 2013 San Diego, US • 2014 Glasgow, Scotland • 2015 Omaha, Nebraska Some issues, size, growth, cost, New: posters, BOF, research projects workshops

  9. Financial • 2571 members • Viability next March, don’t see any issues • However • Cost of membership • Conference surpluses keeping SIGCSE viable • Increase fees, digital and paper?

  10. 2014 Award Winners Lifetime Service Andrea Lawrence, Spelman College Outstanding Contribution to CS Education Robert Panoff, Shodor Foundation

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