Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium

Meeting on March 19, 2016 at Graceland University

Time:	9:00 - 4:00 on Saturday, March 19, 2016
	Registration begins at 8:30 with coffee, tea, pastries Registration Fee: $5.00 (cash or check) includes breaks and lunch
Location:	Resch Science and Technology Hall is located in the southwest part of Graceland's campus. Resch Hall is distinctive in that it has a a dome shaped observatory and it is nearby the Closson Fitness Center, which is shaped to look like the top of a conestoga wagon. The parking lot that is closest to Resch Hall is fine for weekend and visitor parking, but if you follow other directions for Graceland visitor parking you just need to walk through campus to reach Resch Hall. Lamoni is about one hour south of Des Moines, just off I-35. Travel I-35 South to Exit 4 (last exit in Iowa). Turn right off of the exit onto US 69 (which becomes Main street), and drive about 2 miles. Turn left on Cherry Street (the Pizza Shack will be on your left). Follow Cherry Street all the way to its end (the 2nd stop sign), and then continue on forward into campus. Follow that road all the way to the parking lot that is adjacent to Resch Hall and Closson Center. You will be parked at the back of Resch so walk to the main entrance on the north side that faces campus.

Schedule
8:30	Gathering and Registration

9:15	Show and Tell 2-minute reports from each school attending: Reports of any exciting news on each attendee's campus What are the top 1-2 successes of the past year in the CS program? What are the top 1-2 challenges? Do any trends, developments stand out?

10:00	*Robotics in an introductory CS course using C*
	Presenter: Henry M. Walker, Grinnell College

10:30	Break

10:45	Presentation:
	Auto-testing code for teachers and beginning programmers
	Presenter: Dr. Ron Smith, Graceland University

11:15	Open Forum on Assessment

11:45	Lunch

12:45	Announcements
	Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council's BEST grant for an IT Academy at Bettendorf & Pleasant Valley High Schools (Gary Monnard, St. Ambrose University) SIGCSE Committee on Computer Science and the Liberal Arts (Henry Walker, Grinnell College) Helping 2-year college transfers (e.g., from DMACC) (Henry Walker, Grinnell College) Other announcements (this is your chance!)

1:15	Technology Association of Iowa: Initiatives and Programs
	Presenter: Tyler Wyngarden, Director of Talent Development, Technology Association of Iowa

1:45	Break

2:00	Open Forum on Hiring and Faculty Recruitment

2:30	Talk Introducing students to programming through flowcharts, somewhat similar to RAPTOR
	Presenter: Michael Zijlstra, Maharishi University Slides Referenced YouTube piece on Machine Learning and Novelty

3:00	Afternoon Break

3:15	Brief Talk: Online Course Development

3:30	Business/Goodbye: Does the group want to meet again? Where? When? Who? Future leadership of the group Future of the listserv

3:45	Adjourn

This document is available on the World Wide Web as

     http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~walker/ia-cs/program.16.html

created March 16, 2016
last revised March 16, 2016

For more information, please contact Henry M. Walker at walker@cs.grinnell.edu.

created March 16, 2016 last revised March 16, 2016

For more information, please contact Henry M. Walker at walker@cs.grinnell.edu.