====== Cobb '12 and Sprenkle take SIGCSE 2012 ======

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[[http://cs.wlu.edu/~cobbc|Camille Cobb '12]] was a finalist in the [[http://src.acm.org/|ACM Student Research Competition]] held at [[http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2012/|SIGCSE 2012]] in Raleigh, NC.  Camille presented her poster on "Exploring Text-Based Analysis of Test Case Dependencies of Web Applications" in a four-hour session to unknown judges, which placed her in the top five student researchers.  She gave a well-received 12-minute presentation two days later with tough competition--by all accounts, the finalists were all very strong.\\
[[http://news.blogs.wlu.edu/2012/04/11/wl-senior-camille-cobb-finalist-in-national-computer-science-competition/|The Official W&L News Story]]


[[http://cs.wlu.edu/~sprenkle|Dr. Sara Sprenkle]] and co-author [[http://jonah.cs.elon.edu/sduvall2/|Dr. Shannon Duvall]] of Elon University presented their paper on "Reshaping the Image of Computer Science in 15 Minutes (of Class) a Week".  The paper is about systematically using current news articles in classes to show students the opportunities in computer science and how to think like a computer scientist, without much cost.  More information is available on [[http://computersciencenews.blogspot.com/|our blog: Computer Science News]].

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