The CISE department’s student-run organization WiCSE (Women in Computer Science and Engineering) led an outreach day on March 25 for middle school girls.
The girls were attending a week-long spring break camp hosted by the UF WISE group, sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History, spending one day in each of 5 science and engineering departments around campus.
Faculty members Lisa Anthony, Ph.D., and Meera Sitharam, Ph.D., facilitated and managed logistics for the CISE day. The campers learned about computer science, saw exciting lab demos around the department, tried out “thinking like a computer” in some outdoor CS Unplugged activities, and had fun with hands-on coding with CodingBat and Scratch.
Thank you to faculty members Benjamin Lok, Ph.D., Tamer Kahveci, Ph.D., and Jorg Peters, Ph.D., and their students, for showing lab demos. Extra thanks to the systems staff for helping the campers’ computer activities go smoothly. Comments from the campers were positive, and we heard later that the CISE day was the favorite day of many of the campers. The WiCSE student group is advised by Daisy Wang, Ph.D.
Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering