STARS Computing Corps: Narrative Fall 2014-Spring 2015
INSTRUCTIONS: DELETE ALL TEXT that does not apply to you. Delete all blue instructional text. There should be NO blue or
highlighted text in your final document. COMPLETE Events and Outreach Table, it’s CRITICAL. If you have any questions please contact
(Audrey.rorrer@uncc.edu).
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School Logo Here
Institutional Information
Name of College or University:
1.1
Institutional Demographics
Classification:
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Associate's Colleges
Doctorate-granting Universities
Master's Colleges and Universities
Baccalaureate Colleges
Tribal Colleges
Special Focus Institutions
Historically Black College or
University
Hispanic-Serving Institution
Women’s College or University
Percentage of women students in computing
departments:
%; delta since beginning STARS
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Percentage of under-represented minority
students in computing departments:
%; delta since beginning STARS
Faculty or Staff
2014-2015
Academic Liaison:
CORPS Leader:
Evaluation Assistant:
Other Role
2015-2016
Academic Liaison:
CORPS Leader:
Evaluation Assistant:
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Full-Time student enrollment in computing
department:
 Less than 500 students
 Between 501 – 2,000 students
 Between 2,001 – 5,000 students
 Between 5,001 – 10,000 students
 Between 10,001 – 20,000 students
 More than 20,000 students
Name, title/rank, department
Name, title/rank, department, or Undergrad/Grad Student
Name, Undergrad/Grad Student
Name, Undergrad/Grad Student
Please indicate any staffing changes for next year
Name, title/rank, department
Name, title/rank, department, or Undergrad/Grad Student
Name, Undergrad/Grad Student
STARS Leadership Corps
INSERT OWN PICTURE & CAPTION;
Names must be included, if not in
STARS include photo release
Provide an overview of your school’s participation in STARS. Describe what projects you undertook.
3.1
Successes:
What does your school do best?
3.2
Lessons learned:
What lessons will inform the next year in STARS?
3.3
Community Building & Computing Identity
How has STARS helped build a better community (on campus, locally, and nationally) and how has your CORPS reached beyond students
directly involved in the project to reach others?
Academic Year 2013-2014 STARS Computing Corps
3.4
Corps Participation & Organization
How is it managed, supported, and structured? What primary types of projects do CORPS students do? Address what, if any, levels of
CORPS participation there are for students and how CORPS students are supported (i.e. via STARS and/or non-STARS funding, or
whether there are any individuals that do not receive stipends).
Do you have an CORPS course established?
o
YES
o
NO
Do you have an CORPS student organization
established?
Are your CORPS stipend recipients leaders of
other non-stipend CORPS student
volunteers/ambassadors?
o
YES
o
NO
o
YES
o
NO
What tools do you use for outreach?
o
o
o
o
o
o
Lego Robotics
CS Unplugged
Scratch
Alice
GameMaker
Other (specify):
STARS Leadership Corps Details ALL THREE TABLES ARE REQUIRED
CORPS Participation by Ethnicity and Gender
# CORPS Participants
African American
Asian
Caucasian
Hispanic
Native American &
Pacific Islander
Total
CORPS Project Types # CORPS Students
K-12 Outreach
Community Service
Mentoring
Research
Internship
Marketing
Grad
Females
UG
Females
Grad
Males
UG Males
Total
CORPS Details
# CORPS stipends & amounts
# CORPS with no stipends
CORPS Meeting Frequency
CORPS Meeting Attendance
Average Attendance
# Returning & #New CORPS
2015 Celebration Participation
Planned
# Faculty/Staff
# CORPS
Attendees
# CORPS Posters
# CORPS Talks
# Faculty Talks
3.5
CORPS Outreach Events and Impact
3.5.1 Mentoring (Delete this section if not participating in any way).
Mentor-mentee communication type, frequency
# of Mentors
# of Mentees (and indicate if they were
CORPS members also, and if high school
Events
Seminars attended together:
Outreach attended together:
Mentor training sessions:
Retreats with mentors and mentees:
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How is program monitored/evaluated:
students)
3.5.1
CORPS Outreach Activities and Participation
THIS TABLE IS REQUIRED Please pull from Activity Form the students fill out. Include Mentoring activities if completed.
Summer 2014- if applicable
Fall 2014
Primary audience attendee information
Outreach
Activity &
Description
(including
CSDT used)
EXAMPLE:
Ongoing event
with same
audience Mentoring
EXAMPLE:
1 time event
Total
# of
atte
ndee
s
14
8
Primary audience - Grade
level or role (e.g. 7th grade,
middle, high, parent, teacher,
counselor)
Same 14 Undergraduate
Students
HS students
Ethnicity and
gender
%50 AA, %50
W,
5 Male, 9
Female
8 Hispanic, 8
Female
# and
frequency
14 students,
2 times a
week each,
for 7 weeks
(14 students
x2 x 7
weeks)=196
meetings
1 visit
Duration of one
visit (aka
CORPS time
spent)
Total contact hours with each
attendee
30 minutes (14
hrs week x 7
weeks=98)
1 hr each week x 7 weeks x 14
students = 98 contact hours total, or
.5 x 196= 98 Hours
2 hours
8 x 1 x 2 = 16 Hours
98 + 16 = 114 Total Contact
Hours
98 + 2 = 100 Outreach Hours
22
Spring 2015
Primary audience attendee information
Outreach
Activity &
Description
(including
CSDT used)
EXAMPLE:
Ongoing event
with same
audience Mentoring
EXAMPLE:
1 time event
Total
3.5.2
# of
atte
ndee
s
14
8
Primary audience - Grade
level or role (e.g. 7th grade,
middle, high, parent, teacher,
counselor)
Same 14 Undergraduate
Students
HS students
%50 AA, %50
W,
5 Male, 9
Female
8 Hispanic, 8
Female
# and
frequency
14 students,
2 times a
week each,
for 7 weeks
(14 students
x2 x 7
weeks)=196
meetings
1 visit
Total contact hours with each
attendee
30 minutes (14
hrs week x 7
weeks=98)
1 hr each week x 7 weeks x 14
students = 98 contact hours total, or
.5 x 196= 98 Hours
2 hours
8 x 1 x 2 = 16 Hours
98 + 16 = 114 Total Contact
Hours
98 + 2 = 100 Outreach Hours
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Events for STARS Leadership Corps Students
Event Title
Resume Writing Workshop
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Ethnicity and
gender
Duration of one
visit (aka
CORPS time
spent)
Location
Campus
# CORPS
8
Description
Campus career center presented resume workshop at CORPS meeting
CORPS Partnerships
List your CORPS Partners (Community, K-12, Industry, Partnership development); asterisk new partners formed this term. Name them
and indicate if newly developed this term.
Type: (industry, professional
Name of Organization
City, State
New this AY?
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assoc, community, k12)
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(yes/no)
CORPS PRACTICES COLLECTION IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY
For each semester, enumerate each specific practice with a brief description in the table below that will go into the Digital Library
(http://www.bpcportal.org/bpc/collections/Corpsp/). The STARS Resource Submission Form is located on our website.
Submitted On or
Planned
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6.1
Submitter
Title of Resource
URL
Description
External Support and Dissemination
Grants
List here any related grants you have applied for, related to STARS, and indicate whether pending, or funded. Indicate those with students
with an asterisk (*), students ONLY with (**).
6.2
Dissemination (Publications, News and Radio articles, Presentations)
Please list all dissemination activities in a citation format. (e.g. who, what, where, when). Indicate those with students with an asterisk (*),
students ONLY with (**).
NOTE: Delete section titles for types that do not apply; you may add new titles for other types of publications if needed.
Dissemination Venue
YouTube Video – required for all
schools
Your own CORPS Website –
required for all schools
Brief description
Produce 1-3 minute video giving an
overview of your CORPS
Create your own CORPS website or use a
template to be provided.
Citation
Fall
X (mark
when done)
Spring
X (mark
when done)
Refereed Journal Proceedings
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Abstract Refereed Papers or Posters in
Conference Proceedings
Posters (not refereed)
News Articles
Radio Programs
Podcasts
Presentations about STARS
Materials (Presentations, posters,
handouts) developed for outreach K-12,
teachers, counselors
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Curricular & Co-Curricular Integration
Please describe how you are making the CORPS a permanent part of your university/college.
7.1
CORPS Recruiting and Sustainability
Please describe your campus recruiting and dissemination methods for the CORPS here.
7.2
Pair Programming
(Delete this section if not participating in any way).
Number of instructors implementing, stipends awarded
Number of classes at your school implementing pair programming and approx number of students in each type of class
First year introductory courses
Second year intermediate courses (data structures, algorithms)
Third year elective courses
Fourth year advanced courses (capstone, software engineering, etc)
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Graduate courses
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