SIGCSE Report Paul Tymann ACM Education Council August 2015

SIGCSE Board Chair, Susan Rodger, Duke Treasurer, Amber Settle, DePaul Vice Chair, Paul Tymann, RIT Secretary, Judy Sheard, Monash (AU)

SIGCSE Board At Large, Tiffany Barnes, NCSU At Large, Sue Fitzgerald, Metro State Past Chair, Renee McCauley, College of Charleston At Large, Alison Clear, EIT (NZ)

Member Benefits ACM Inroads (4 issues, magazine for the computing education community) Proceedings of Technical Symposium, ITiCSE and ICER SIGCSE Electronic Bulletin (4 issues) Reduced registration rates for Technical Symposium, ITiCSE and ICER Free access to SIGCSE publication archives through the ACM Portal SIGCSE-ANNOUNCE and SIGCSE-MEMBERS mailing lists

Healthy Membership FY12 – 2,557 FY13 – 2,571 FY14 – 2,567 FY15 – 2,296 Introduced two levels of membership in FY14 Electronic ($25) Paper ($45)

2015 Membership Membership CategoryNumber Professional, print1,316 Professional, electronic522 Total Professional1,838 Affiliate, print195 Affiliate, electronic188 Total Affiliate383 Student, print27 Student, electronic48 Total Student75

SIGCSE Conferences SIGCSE Technical Symposium About 1,200 attendees ITiCSE – Innovation and Technology in CS Education Typically held abroad (traditionally Europe) About 200 attendees ICER – International Computing Education Research Rotates between US and abroad About attendees

Technical Symposium Year LocationSpecial Features 2015Kansas City, MO 1,285 attendees 105 papers 36% paper acceptance rate 28 three-hour workshops Lightning talks & demos Department Chairs Roundtable CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop 2016Memphis, TN March 2 nd – 5 th Sheraton Memphis Downtown 2017Seattle, WA March 9 th – 11 th Washington State Convention Center

ITiCSE LocationSpecial Features 2015Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania 179 attendees 7 Working Groups 124 papers 43.5% paper acceptance rate 2016San Pablo Catholic University in Arequipa, Peru First time in South America 2017 Bologna? Will return to Europe

ICER LocationSpecial Features 2013University of California, San Diego in San Diego, CA 78 attendees Doctoral Consortium (12 students) 2014University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland 79 attendees 2015University of Nebraska at Omaha in Omaha, NE 119 attendees Doctoral Consortium (20) WIP Workshop (10) Poster Track Added 2016Melbourne, Australia

2015 Best Papers ConferencePaperAuthors ICER 2015Subgoals, Context, and Worked Examples in Learning Computing Problem Solving Briana Morrison, Lauren Margulieux, & Mark Guzdial ICER 2015Boys' Needlework: Understanding Gendered and Indigenous Perspectives on Computing and Crafting with Electronic Textiles Kristin Searle & Yasmin Kafai ITiCSE 2015Semi-Automatic Assessment of Unrestrained Java Code: A Library, a DSL, and a Workbench to Assess Exams and Exercises, Insa, David & Silva, Josep SIGCSE 2015 Structuring Flipped Classes with Lightweight Teams and Gamication Celine Latulipe, N. Bruce Long, & Carlos E. Seminario

2015 Award Winners Mark Allen Weiss Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education Frank Young Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community

Special Projects Grants Fiscal YearAmount Spent Proposals Received Proposals Funded FY 2013$31, FY 2014$14, FY 2015$18,277285

FY2015 Special Project Grants TitlePIs A Polished CS Education ZooSteve Wolfman & William Byrd Adapting CSE to the Internet AgeYifat Kolikant, Sally Fincher & Josh Tenenberg Assessing the Potential of Parsons Puzzles with learning programming. Alessio Gaspar & Amruth Kumar OnRamp: An Interactive Learning Portal Samantha Foley & Joshua Hursey Low-cost Adaption of Lego Serious Play to Teach Software Engineering Stan Kurkovsky

Speakers Fund Program Fiscal Year# Speakers Funded Amount FY133$2,090 FY142$1,935 FY150$0

Travel Grants Conceived and initially funded by Henry Walker For faculty who have never attended the SIGCSE Technical Symposium First awards were made in 2014 Up to $500 each Target: 5 awards annually 10 applications received in FY15

Travel Grant Awardees 2015 Daniel Fokum, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica Dimitris Papmichail, The College of New Jersey, USA Yu Sun, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA Courtney Starrett, Winthrop University, New York, USA Narasimha Vajjhala, The University of New York Tirana, Albania Mark Zarb, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom 2014 Meg Fryling, Siena College, USA Markus Geissler, Cosumnes River College, USA Carol Yarbrough, Alabama School of Fine Arts, USA

Current Initiatives Growth of ICER Traditionally between participants Wanted more interest in CS Ed Research Desire to expand the audience ICER 2015 was the largest ever Growing International Interest in CS Education iSIGCSE (India) China and India have expressed interest in hosting ITiCSE in the future Working with organizations (ACM-Europe, Informatics Europe, …) & conferences (WiPSCE, ISSEP, CSERC, …) to create a stronger presence of CSE conferences in Europe for 2017 Increased international presence on SIGCSE board

Current Initiatives Cost of Membership In 2013 we determined dues were not covering costs Introduced two membership rates, paper ($45) and electronic ($25) Volunteers Working to expand volunteer pool Created a volunteer coordinator position and an online signup form Established term limits on many volunteer positions Have filled many new positions this past year