Conference Agenda

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Conference Center Paradise Room
Conference Center Terrace
Conference Center Oak Room
Conference Center Meeting Room B+C
Conference Center Lounge
Ford 240
Ford 241
Ford 246
Ford 342
Ford Hall Atrium
Conference Center Paradise Room and Oak Room
Alumnae Gym 301
No specific location / location unknown
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Workshop 2
9:00am - 12:00pm
Conference Center Paradise Room
Location: Conference Center Paradise Room

Next‑Gen Teaching: Harnessing AI In Course Design

Patrick Ester, Mohit Chandarana

Conference Welcome
1:00pm - 1:15pm
Conference Center Paradise Room
Location: Conference Center Paradise Room
Invited Speaker: Mark Guzdial
1:15pm - 2:15pm
Conference Center Paradise Room
Lawrence D\'Antonio
Location: Conference Center Paradise Room
Session Chair: Lawrence D\'Antonio
Mark Guzdial, University of Michigan
Changing Computing To Make It “For All”
Paper Session 1
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Conference Center Paradise Room
Unnati Shah
Location: Conference Center Paradise Room
Session Chair: Unnati Shah
2:30pm - 2:55pm

ReRead Text Pattern Editor for Open-Ended and Coding Questions

Vlad Veksler


2:55pm - 3:20pm

ConnectPlus: A Demonstration of a Full-Stack Collaboration Tool for Academic and Team Projects

Makayla Coleman, Unnati Shah


3:20pm - 3:45pm

Teaching Computer Security Through Lab Demonstrations and Simulators Created as Senior Programming Projects

Edwin Dauber

Coffee Break
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Conference Center Terrace
Location: Conference Center Terrace
Workshop 1
9:00am - 12:00pm
Conference Center Oak Room
Location: Conference Center Oak Room

PLCC: A Tool Set for Teaching Programming Languages Courses

"Stoney" Herman Lee Jackson, Timothy Fossum, James Heliotis, Alain Kägi

Lightning Talks
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Conference Center Oak Room
Karyn Doke
Location: Conference Center Oak Room
Session Chair: Karyn Doke
2:30pm - 2:42pm

Common Student Mistakes in Building Data Marts for Effective Data Visualization

Ching-yu Huang


2:42pm - 2:54pm

Ransom Sentinel (RaSe): Designing Ransomware-Resilient Systems Through Adversarial Simulation and Cryptography

Chetan Jaiswal


2:54pm - 3:06pm

Rediscovering Collaborative Whiteboarding for Problem Solving in the Era of AI

Karen H Jin


3:06pm - 3:18pm

Bridging the Gap with AI Literacy

Carolyn Matheus, Kevin Gaugler


3:18pm - 3:30pm

Essential Computing Concepts (Draft): An Alternative to CS2023 for Colleges

Alyce Brady, Amanda Holland-Minkley, Megan Olsen


3:30pm - 3:42pm

Designing Interdisciplinary Neuro-divergent Inclusive CUREs in Computer Science

Karina Assiter, Sue Vincent

Workshop 3
9:00am - 12:00pm
Conference Center Meeting Room B+C
Location: Conference Center Meeting Room B+C

Amp Stack: A System for Teaching CS1 Modularity

Angel Rivera

Tutorial 1
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Conference Center Meeting Room B+C
Location: Conference Center Meeting Room B+C

Hands On Data Structures: Making Abstraction Tangible with Manipulatives

Halie Rando, Jade Lilian Palosky, Hayley Ma, Vivian Myers, Sofia Jurusz

Blossoms Partner Session
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Conference Center Lounge
Location: Conference Center Lounge
CS Careers & AI: What Gives You an Edge?
An interactive session on what actually sets CS students apart in 2026 — the skills, tools, and strategies that work, and what's still missing. Walk away w...
Paper Session 2
4:15pm - 5:15pm
Ford 240
Ed Harcourt
Location: Ford 240
Session Chair: Ed Harcourt
4:15pm - 4:40pm

Toward True Differentiated Instruction with PathMX and Curriculum as Code

Mark Johnson, Chris Alvin


4:40pm - 5:05pm

Apache Sudoku: A Web-Based Game for Learning and Demonstrating Web Development Concepts

Colin Zouck, Unnati Shah

Paper Session 3
4:15pm - 5:15pm
Ford 241
Bo Kim
Location: Ford 241
Session Chair: Bo Kim
4:15pm - 4:40pm

A model for AI Across the Curriculum at an Urban Community College

Mohammad Azhar, Rifat Salam, Elizabeth Wissinger, Melissa Zavala


4:40pm - 5:05pm

Teaching Algorithmic Bias

Kevin McCullen

Rephactor Partner Session
4:15pm - 5:15pm
Ford 246
Location: Ford 246
Tom Way will present about Rephactor, a CCSC National Gold Partner
Paper Session 4
4:15pm - 5:15pm
Ford 342
Mark LeBlanc
Location: Ford 342
Session Chair: Mark LeBlanc
4:15pm - 4:40pm

Experiential Educational Ethics Activities in Undergraduate Education: Instructor Observations

Ursula Parker, Ashish Aggarwal, Farzana Rahman, Samuel Malachowsky, Daniel Krutz


4:40pm - 5:05pm

Reverse Engineering Student Misconceptions

Anthony Notaro, Geoffrey Moores, Maria Ebling

Registration
7:30am - 4:00pm
Ford Hall Atrium
Location: Ford Hall Atrium
Registration
CCSC Partner Displays
11:00am - 5:30pm
Ford Hall Atrium
Location: Ford Hall Atrium
Please visit with representatives of our CCSC National Partners Rephactor, Blossoms, and MAP-CS, and CCSCNE Partner MongoDB.
Traditional Smith Tea Break
3:45pm - 4:15pm
Ford Hall Atrium
Location: Ford Hall Atrium
Reception
5:15pm - 6:45pm
Ford Hall Atrium
Location: Ford Hall Atrium
Faculty Poster Session
5:30pm - 6:45pm
Ford Hall Atrium
Location: Ford Hall Atrium
Some lightning talks will additionally be presented as posters in this session.

A Summer Curriculum in Data Visualization and Analysis for High School Students

Paolien Wang, Ching-yu Huang


Growing STEM Student Success with Interdisciplinary Data Science Courses

Beryl Hoffman, Nina Theis, Stephen Walsh


Creating a Web Application to Scaffold Student Practice Work for a Discrete Mathematics Course

Christopher Michael Morales

Undergraduate Poster Exhibit and Research/Application Development Competition
5:30pm - 6:45pm
Ford Hall Atrium
Location: Ford Hall Atrium
A complete list of poster titles, authors, and abstracts will be available in the printed booklet.
Conference Banquet and Awards
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Conference Center Paradise Room and Oak Room
Location: Conference Center Paradise Room and Oak Room
Frank Ford Memorial Programming Contest
7:45am - 12:45pm
Alumnae Gym 301
Location: Alumnae Gym 301
Lunch for Programming Contest Teams and Advisors
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Alumnae Gym 301
Location: Alumnae Gym 301
Lunch will be provided for student programming contest participants and the team faculty advisors.
Lunch on your own
12:00pm - 1:00pm
On arrival or following your workshop session, lunch is on your own with options on campus and at nearby restaurants.