Schedule

12:00-5:00 Registration Open

5:30-7:00 STARS Celebration Dinner (RESPECT Attendees welcome – extra ticket required)

7:45-8:45 Breakfast in Overlook Ballroom

8:00-5:00 Registration Open

8:45-9:00 Welcome to STARS Celebration and RESPECT in Overlook Ballroom

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-12:30 Research Paper Sessions 1 & 2: Ellington Salon D

Each presenter will present their paper for 15 minutes.  This will be followed by 5 minutes of table discussion about the paper and 10 minutes of interactive audience questions.

• 10:30-11:00 – Computer Science Principles (CSP) and Students With Learning Differences: Expanding Opportunities for a Hidden Underrepresented Group (Sarah Wille, Jeanne Century and Miriam Pike)
• 11:00-11:30 – Multiple Factors Converge to Influence Women’s Persistence in Computing: A Qualitative Analysis of Persisters and Nonpersisters (Wendy Dubow, Alexis Kaminsky, Joanna Weidler-Lewis)
• 11:30-12:00 – Levels of Student Participation and Stages of Relevant Curriculum (Helen Hu, Patricia Campbell)
• 12:00-12:30 – Promoting Faculty Mentoring and Community for Broadening Participation in Computing (Jamie Payton, Tiffany Barnes, Audrey Rorrer, Huifang Zuo, Brianna Naolu)

12:30-2:00 Lunch – Overlook Ballroom

2:00-3:00 Research Paper Session 3: Ellington Salon D

Each presenter will present their paper for 15 minutes.  This will be followed by 5 minutes of table discussion about the paper and 10 minutes of interactive audience questions.

• 2:00-2:30 – Understanding the Impact of QPOC Representation in Video Games (Roger Smith, Adrienne Decker)
• 2:30-3:00 – Does a Taste of Computing Increase Computer Science Enrollment? (Steven McGee, Randi McGee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, Taylor White, Ronald Greenberg, Lucia Dettori, Dale Reed, Brenda Wilkerson, Don Yanek, Andrew Rasmussen and Gail Chapman)

3:00-4:00 Experience Papers Session 4: Ellington Salon D

Each presenter will present their paper for 10 minutes.  This will be followed by 4 minutes of table discussion about the paper and 6 minutes of interactive audience questions.

• 3:00-3:20 – Tech Kids Unlimited: Teaching Technology to Youth Who Learn Differently (Beth Rosenberg)
• 3:20-3:40 – Programming Boot Camp to Retain Women in IT: An Experience Report (Sonal Dekhane, Nannette Napier, Kris Nagel)
• 3:40-4:00 – STEAM-Based Interventions: Why Student Engagement is Only Part of the Story (Michael Helms, Roxanne Moore, Doug Edwards, Jason Freeman)

4:00-4:30 Break

 

4:30-5:30 Experience Papers Session 5: Ellington Salon D

Each presenter will present their paper for 10 minutes.  This will be followed by 4 minutes of table discussion about the paper and 6 minutes of interactive audience questions.

• 4:30 – 4:50 – Lessons Learned: Engaging Students with Disabilities on a National Scale (Brianna Blaser, Richard Ladner, Sheryl Burgstahler)
• 4:50 – 5:10 – Experience Report: Workshopping Alternate Outcomes to Sexism Through Participatory Classroom Role-play (Celine Latulipe, Sarah Provencal and Tonya Frevert)
• 5:10 – 5:30 – Designing Equitable and Sustainable Pathways into Computing: Lesson Learned from Hosting An Hour of Code Event (Ugochi Acholonu, Jessa Dickinson, Dominic Amato, Nichole Pinkard)

 

5:30-5:45 Lightning Talks: Ellington Salon D

• The Community College Pathway to Computer Science and other STEM Bachelor’s Degrees [Shanna Jaggars, John Fink, Jeffrey Fletcher and Afet Dundar]
• Free remote software to better integrate disabled students into mainstream education [Thomas Hahn, Hidayat Ur Rahman, Richard Segall]
• Broadening Participation in Visualization Promising Practices from Collaborative Data Visualization Applications at the Undergraduate Level – Lightning Talk [Vetria Byrd]
• Helping Educators Leverage Youth Interest in STEM Out-of-school Programs [Denise Nacu, Taha Hamid, Caitlin Martin, Taihui Li, Daniela Stan Raicu, Jonathan Gemmell and Nichole Pinkard]
• Can embodied interaction and virtual peer customization in a virtual programming environment enhance computational thinking? [Dhaval Parmar, Sabarish Babu, Lorraine Lin, Sophie Jörg, Nikeetha D’Souza, Alison Leonard and Shaundra Daily]

5:45 – 6:15 Travel to Reception

6:15-9:15 RESPECT Joint Reception with STARS

The RESPECT 2016 reception will be held on Friday, August 12 at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta. (Map/directions here.)  More information on driving and parking (info).

Appetizers and soft drinks will be served. Information about the center, including current exhibits, directions, and parking, can be found  https://www.civilandhumanrights.org/

Posters (6:45-8:00)

• Understanding Blended Mentorship in Minecraft: Scaling Computer Science Expertise Across Distances [Ugochi Acholonu, Jessa Dickinson, Leslie Smith, Dominic Amato and Nichole Pinkard]
• Program Alliances: Creating Pathways to Success for Women of Color Computing Students [Lily T. Ko, Janet Smith, Maria Ong and Apriel K. Hodari]
• Measuring & Assessing the Ability to Understand, Recognize and Construct Computational rules in Elementary School using Microsoft’s Kodu Game Lab [Ashish Aggarwal and Christina Gardner-Mccune]
• How CS Departments are Managing the Enrolment Boom: Troubling Implications for Diversity [Elizabeth Patitsas, Michelle Craig and Steve Easterbrook]
• Remixing Minecraft to Broaden Participation in Computing [Ugochi Acholonu, Dominic Amato, Jessa Dickinson, Leslie Smith, Joshua Engel, Erin Walker, Gina Grant and Nichole Pinkard]
• The Community College Pathway to Computer Science and other STEM Bachelor’s Degrees [Shanna Jaggars, John Fink, Jeffrey Fletcher and Afet Dundar]
• Free remote software to better integrate disabled students into mainstream education [Thomas Hahn, Hidayat Ur Rahman, Richard Segall]
• Broadening Participation in Visualization Promising Practices from Collaborative Data Visualization Applications at the Undergraduate Level – Lightning Talk [Vetria Byrd]
• Helping Educators Leverage Youth Interest in STEM Out-of-school Programs [Denise Nacu, Taha Hamid, Caitlin Martin, Taihui Li, Daniela Stan Raicu, Jonathan Gemmell and Nichole Pinkard]
• Can embodied interaction and virtual peer customization in a virtual programming environment enhance computational thinking? [Dhaval Parmar, Sabarish Babu, Lorraine Lin, Sophie Jörg, Nikeetha D’Souza, Alison Leonard and Shaundra Daily]

7:45-9:00 Breakfast in Overlook Ballroom