Engaging constructions: family-based computing experiences for immigrant middle school students
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
Introduction to Special Issue (Part 1): Broadening Participation in Computing Education
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
Why Latino High School Students Select Computer Science as a Major: Analysis of a Success Story
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
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In the 2010-2011 school year we received an Army High Performance Computing Research Center grant whose goal was increasing the number of Hispanic engineers with expertise in complex systems, simulations and large data sets. Our university is a medium-sized, public, Hispanic-serving institution; our department is small. Our goals were to improve the social support available to our Hispanic students, encourage them to complete their degrees, and give them a valid research experience to provide a basis for informed decisions about whether or not they want to go to graduate school. This paper will cover how we structured our program to accomplish our goals, including how we factored in results from prior research on minority student experiences. In the second year, we expanded our program to include geography and give a new cohort of students a multi-disciplinary experience. We will discuss how a small computer science department successfully built an undergraduate research program organized around the theme of large data sets, what we have accomplished so far and how we hope to continue.