Category: Outreach

Biannual Battle of the Brains Programming Contest Challenges High Schoolers From 26 High Schools From All Over North Texas This spring the biannual Battle of the Brains High School Programming Contest brought in 100 teams from 26 different North Texas high schools. For more than a decade, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has been […]

Google Visits With UT Dallas CS & SE Students for a Week of Google Tech Talks, Workshops, and Other Google Events Earlier this semester, Google paid a visit with their team of UT Dallas CS Google Alumni to the UT Dallas Computer Science department for a week of activities, tech talks, workshops, and Q&A’s as part of their Google University Outreach […]

HackUTD’17 Motivates 500 Students For 24 Hours With Big Ideas, Virtual Reality, Creativity, And Design The Third Annual HackUTD 24-hour hackathon was held March 4th and 5th with approximately 500 students participating from all over the nation. The HackUTD event was organized by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) under the guidance of UT […]

New Living Learning Community to Help Female Students Gain STEAM When Dr. Janell Straach took computer science courses at UT Dallas a few decades ago, there were very few female students in her classes. “I just accepted it as that’s the way it is. We all knew each other. You found each other and clung together,” she […]

UTD Broadens Efforts to Teach Computer Skills to Children, Teachers Across North Texas The University of Texas at Dallas is expanding its ongoing efforts to promote computer science education to K-12 students — and teachers — throughout North Texas. The University currently coordinates programs that range from providing training and professional development for science, math […]

North Texas High Schoolers Compete in the Fall 2016 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest For more than a decade, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has been conducting a statewide “Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest.” The contest, which follows ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) style, is […]

The Women Who Compute (WWC) Club Organizes Events to Promote Women in Computing and Technology At UT Dallas, both the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the UT Dallas Computer Science strive to promote a strong sense of community amongst the female student body by working with UT Dallas clubs and outside […]

UT Dallas CS Department Welcomes In The New School Year With An Assortment Of Student Activities This past August marked the beginning of a new 2016 academic year for the UT Dallas campus full of eager students ready to start their academic careers. The UT Dallas Computer Science Department was ready and waiting to welcome […]

Student Interns From IIT Kanpur Complete Inaugural Special Academic Research Internship at the UT Dallas CS Department For two months this summer, The UT Dallas Computer Science Department served as home for Nirbhay Modhe, Parag Bansal, and Vivek Verma, the first group of international undergraduate students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, India, participating in the special intern program between the […]

Texas teachers learn coding at UTD, hoping to bring lessons to their classrooms Via Dallas Morning News – The sound of water splashing, followed by a chorus of laughter, echoed around a large room at the University of Texas at Dallas. School was out for students, but not for the 11 teachers in the class. […]