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Valuable resources and opportunities

Students at Earlham College get the valuable opportunities for participating in research with the Computer Science faculty over the summer months, both on and off campus. Additionally, there are also many interdisciplinary research opportunities in collaboration with faculty from other departments. Some upcoming research includes textual analysis, energy efficiency, and aerial sensing for geographical surveying. For more information on current openings and application, go to the Earlham Handshake portal.

Opportunities

URPC

The Undergraduate Research Poster Conference (URPC) is an example of such poster conferences which take place at Earlham College. This format takes place in the fall and allows students who took part in research to present. It is open to Earlham College Students as well as other parties from different institutions. 

External Conferences

HACKATHONS

Earlham students have attended and gained awards at hackathons around the region. More information about collegiate hackathons can be found on Major League Hacking. The Earlham students have also organized Squirrel Hacks through the EC Hackathon Club.

Science Summer Collaborative Research

Students at Earlham College get the valuable opportunities for participating in research with the Computer Science faculty over the summer months, both on and off campus. Additionally, there are also many interdisciplinary research opportunities in collaboration with faculty from other departments. Some upcoming research includes textual analysis, energy efficiency, and aerial sensing for geographical surveying. For more information on current openings and application, go to the Earlham Handshake portal.

Cluster Computing Group

Charlie’s student/faculty research covers developing approaches and materials to support injecting parallelism into a broad range of the undergraduate computer science curriculum; software and hardware “educational appliances” such as the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) and LittleFe projects which support parallelism education; and software engineering tools and techniques for scaling scientific kernels to the next generation of petascale computational resources.

ACM-W STUDENT CHAPTER

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest academic and scientific society for computing. The ACM Women’s Council (ACM‐W) focuses on encouraging and promoting the extensive engagement of women in the field by presenting services and opportunities to its 148 member student chapters. Earlham College ACM-W Student Chapter was launched on Feb 17, 2016 with 10 members from different disciplines. Since then, we have organized and participated in a number of programs and events across the nation. For more information about our activities and the available opportunities, please visit Earlham College ACM-W Student Chapter.

Student Resources

At Earlham College, we believe in enabling our students to thrive no matter what the circumstance. This is why we provide extensive help in the form of tutors, and open friendly faculty to help make any student's dream a reality. The close collaboration between faculty and students mean that reaching out is always a realistic option.

Center for Career and Community Engagement

Students are encouraged to use the Center for Career and Community Engagement as it offers fantastic support for any student who uses it well. They offer writing help, interview skills, help to locate potential internships. To find out more about this service here is a link to their website: Center For Career and Community Engagement

Tutoring

Other resources include tutoring, which has been offered mostly for the introductory courses (CS128, CS256, and CS310) mostly. However, tutoring also presents an opportunity for students as well. Students are encouraged to tutor as this is a fantastic opportunity to improve one’s teaching skills. In addition, one has the opportunity for one-on-one tutoring if the student feels this is necessary. Other Resources: Pedagogical wiki

MAc Checkout

The MacBook Pro computers are among the most commonly circulated items in the STC collection. Students can check out Macs for up to six hours at a time. Before students or faculty members check out the laptops, they must sign a form describing their rights and responsibilities. Only when a professor takes them for a class may the computers leave the STC area.

Other Useful resources for CS majors