Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
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Daily Overview |
| 7:30am - 4:00pm |
Registration Location: Ford Hall Atrium Registration |
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| 7:45am - 12:45pm |
Frank Ford Memorial Programming Contest Location: Alumnae Gym 301 |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
Workshop 1 Location: Conference Center Oak Room PLCC: A Tool Set for Teaching Programming Languages Courses |
Workshop 2 Location: Conference Center Paradise Room Next‑Gen Teaching: Harnessing AI In Course Design |
Workshop 3 Location: Conference Center Meeting Room B+C Amp Stack: A System for Teaching CS1 Modularity |
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| 11:00am - 5:30pm |
CCSC Partner Displays Location: Ford Hall Atrium Please visit with representatives of our CCSC National Partners Rephactor, Blossoms, and MAP-CS, and CCSCNE Partner MongoDB. |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch on your own On arrival or following your workshop session, lunch is on your own with options on campus and at nearby restaurants. |
Lunch for Programming Contest Teams and Advisors Location: Alumnae Gym 301 Lunch will be provided for student programming contest participants and the team faculty advisors. |
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| 1:00pm - 1:15pm |
Conference Welcome Location: Conference Center Paradise Room |
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| 1:15pm - 2:15pm |
Invited Speaker: Mark Guzdial Location: Conference Center Paradise Room Chair: Lawrence D'Antonio Mark Guzdial, University of Michigan Changing Computing To Make It “For All” |
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| 2:15pm - 2:30pm |
Coffee Break Location: Conference Center Terrace |
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| 2:30pm - 3:45pm |
Lightning Talks Location: Conference Center Oak Room Chair: Karyn Doke Common Student Mistakes in Building Data Marts for Effective Data Visualization 2:42pm - 2:54pm Ransom Sentinel (RaSe): Designing Ransomware-Resilient Systems Through Adversarial Simulation and Cryptography 2:54pm - 3:06pm Rediscovering Collaborative Whiteboarding for Problem Solving in the Era of AI 3:06pm - 3:18pm Bridging the Gap with AI Literacy 3:18pm - 3:30pm Essential Computing Concepts (Draft): An Alternative to CS2023 for Colleges 3:30pm - 3:42pm Designing Interdisciplinary Neuro-divergent Inclusive CUREs in Computer Science |
Paper Session 1 Location: Conference Center Paradise Room Chair: Unnati Shah ReRead Text Pattern Editor for Open-Ended and Coding Questions 2:55pm - 3:20pm ConnectPlus: A Demonstration of a Full-Stack Collaboration Tool for Academic and Team Projects 3:20pm - 3:45pm Teaching Computer Security Through Lab Demonstrations and Simulators Created as Senior Programming Projects |
Blossoms Partner Session 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 with concrete ideas for your own career prep. Gift card raffle for attendees. Presented by Blossoms. |
Tutorial 1 Location: Conference Center Meeting Room B+C Hands On Data Structures: Making Abstraction Tangible with Manipulatives |
| 3:45pm - 4:15pm |
Traditional Smith Tea Break Location: Ford Hall Atrium |
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| 4:15pm - 5:15pm |
Rephactor Partner Session Location: Ford 246 Tom Way will present about Rephactor, a CCSC National Gold Partner |
Paper Session 2 Location: Ford 240 Chair: Ed Harcourt Toward True Differentiated Instruction with PathMX and Curriculum as Code 4:40pm - 5:05pm Apache Sudoku: A Web-Based Game for Learning and Demonstrating Web Development Concepts |
Paper Session 3 Location: Ford 241 Chair: Bo Kim A model for AI Across the Curriculum at an Urban Community College 4:40pm - 5:05pm Teaching Algorithmic Bias |
Paper Session 4 Location: Ford 342 Chair: Mark LeBlanc Experiential Educational Ethics Activities in Undergraduate Education: Instructor Observations 4:40pm - 5:05pm Reverse Engineering Student Misconceptions |
| 5:15pm - 6:45pm |
Reception Location: Ford Hall Atrium |
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| 5:30pm - 6:45pm |
Faculty Poster Session 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 Growing STEM Student Success with Interdisciplinary Data Science Courses Creating a Web Application to Scaffold Student Practice Work for a Discrete Mathematics Course |
Undergraduate Poster Exhibit and Research/Application Development Competition Location: Ford Hall Atrium A complete list of poster titles, authors, and abstracts will be available in the printed booklet. |
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| 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
Conference Banquet and Awards Location: Conference Center Paradise Room and Oak Room |
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| 8:00am - 10:00am |
Registration Location: Ford Hall Atrium |
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| 8:20am - 9:35am |
Tutorial 2 Location: Ford 342 Ethics-Driven Computing Education Through Experiential Learning Labs |
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| 8:45am - 9:35am |
Paper Session 5 Location: Ford 241 Chair: "Stoney" Herman Lee Jackson Teaching Software Development in the GenAI Era: Experiences and Course Design 9:10am - 9:35am Teaching Programming at a Small College in the Era of GenAI |
Paper Session 6 Location: Ford 240 Chair: Razieh Fathi AI-Enhanced Guided-Inquiry Platform for Collaborative Learning in Introductory Programming 9:10am - 9:35am Teaching AI the Learner-Centered Way: Designing Meaningful AI Literacy Lesson for Middle School |
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| 9:35am - 9:50am |
Coffee Break Location: Ford Hall Atrium |
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| 9:50am - 10:40am |
Paper Session 7 Location: Ford 241 Chair: Hani Shabanian Eye-Assist Navigation System 10:15am - 10:40am Detection of Spinning Behavior with a Known Solution |
Paper Session 8 Location: Ford 342 Chair: Drew van der Poel Structured Post-Evaluation Interviews and Remediation (SPEIR): A Formative Assessment Workflow. 10:15am - 10:40am Integrating Smart Learning Content with Project-Based Introductory Programming Course at Community Colleges |
Paper Session 9 Location: Ford 240 Chair: Mark Bailey Supporting High School Computing Education with Easily Adoptable Experiential Learning Modules 10:15am - 10:40am Integrating COIL into an Undergraduate Software Engineering Course: A Cross-Cultural Experience Report |
| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Invited Speaker: Fran Berman Location: Ford 240 Chair: Lawrence D'Antonio Francine Berman, Director of Public Interest Technology, UMass Amherst Educating a Tech-Responsible Workforce |
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| 11:45am - 12:15pm |
Membership Meeting Location: Ford 240 All members (if you registered for this year’s conference, you’re a member) are welcome to join the regional board and conference committee to share your thoughts about CCSCNE and find out more about the organization. |
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| 12:30pm - 2:30pm |
CCSCNE Board Meeting |
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