SIGCSE Report

Update to ACM Education Council2nd November 2013

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

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

SIGCSE Symposium 2013, Denver

• Best Paper

“Retaining 18-30% more Majors witha Trio of Instructional Best Practices in CS1”

Leo Porter, Skidmore College & Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego

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), Moisés Riestra-González (Accenture Analytics, Spain)

ITiCSE venues

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

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

ICER

• ICER venues– 2013 San Diego, US– 2014 Glasgow, Scotland– 2015 Omaha, Nebraska

Some issues, size, growth, cost, New: posters, BOF, research projects workshops

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?

2014 Award Winners

Lifetime ServiceAndrea Lawrence, Spelman College

Outstanding Contribution to CS EducationRobert Panoff, Shodor Foundation