A Case Study for Collaborative Project in Computer Science through the STEMPact Program

Ching Yu Huang, Rishbh Rana, Carlos Flores, Santiago Roldan

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Abstract

Many prospective undergraduate students do not have the opportunity to experience computer programming in high school. School districts either do not have the budget to hire qualified Computer Science teachers or there are not enough resources available to offer the courses. A lack of exposure to computers science can lead to difficulty in retaining and recruiting STEM field majors. There is a challenge in encouraging community college students to pursue a STEM degree at four year universities. In this paper the 'STEMpact' project, a cooperative arrangement by Union County College (UCC) and Kean University, aims to promote the success of Hispanic and low-income students in completing post-secondary degrees and to address the need for a diverse 21st century STEM-trained workforce. In this paper, a collaborative project in computer science is discussed for a student from UCC, who knew nothing about programming. The student began working with two Kean computer science students. A successful web project was completed and as a result of this collaboration the UCC student was motivated to explore more about computer science at a four-year university.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2017
EditorsFernando G. Tinetti, Quoc-Nam Tran, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Mary Qu Yang, Mary Qu Yang, Hamid R. Arabnia
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1126-1131
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538626528
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Dec 2018
Event2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2017 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 14 Dec 201716 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2017

Conference

Conference2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period14/12/1716/12/17

Keywords

  • Community College
  • HTML
  • Image processing
  • Javascript
  • MySQL
  • STEM major
  • Web Application

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