Category: Outreach

CS Student-Run App Eases Job Search Via UT Dallas Mercury – Students struggling to find summer work will now have better access to jobs and internships, thanks to a new app co-created by a UTD sophomore.  Tyler Hargreaves, a computer science major, co-founded Condecca, a web and mobile platform designed to connect students to job opportunities at […]

Codeburners: A 16-Year Old Competitive Coding Club for UT Dallas CS Students Since its inception over 16-years ago, the Codeburners (pdf) club has garnered over 500 members while under the supervision of Dr. Ivor Page, the club’s faculty supervisor and a UT Dallas Computer Science Professor of 35 years. The Codeburners is a group of […]

UT Dallas Computer Science Students Get New Internship Opportunity with State Farm Via NBC DFW – Computer Science students at University of Texas at Dallas are participating in a new, “remote” internship opportunity with State Farm. “This is a first here at UT Dallas,” said Pete Poorman, a corporate relations manager for UTD. “We are excited […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) Establishes the Center for Engaging Women in Cyber Security Coming off of the success of hosting the Women in Cyber Security (WiCys ) 2016 Conference in Dallas, Texas early last April, the UT Dallas’s Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) has established the inaugural Center […]

Education Matters: Coding Club – Dr. Veerasamy Discusses Coding Club with Arkansas Matters Arkansas Matters – More schools are including “coding” in their curriculum, and the students are younger than ever. Nine-year-old Isabelle Visser loves to “play” on the computer, but her classwork is no ordinary game. She is learning how to code! “There’s a […]

HackUTD’16 Challenges 500 Students for 24 Hours of Ideas, Hacking, and Design Five hundred students from across the nation convened at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for the second year of HackUTD. Whereas last year’s HackUTD was open to only UT Dallas students, this year, the registration for HackUTD’16 was open to the public. The second HackUTD was […]

High School Students Code at the Spring Programming Contest Last February, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Outreach program began the 2016 year with their semi-annual statewide “Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest.” Approximately 110 teams comprising 300 high schools students from all over North Texas, participated in the contest this spring. Several […]

NCWIT Honors the Achievements of 15 North Texas Female High School Tech Enthusiasts The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) 2016 Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC) honored fourteen female high school technologists and one educator from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex during a daylong celebration at the UT Dallas Campus. The NCWIT Award […]

Dr. Veerasamy talks with the Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press about Coding for Kids Dallas Morning News — When the last bell rings through the halls of Herfurth Elementary School, 10-year-old Savannah Schwarz races to the computer lab. She posts up outside the door in anticipation of coding club. The after-school sessions were […]

Battle of the Brains: Fall 2015 High School Programming Contest For almost 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 held twice a year at the […]