Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

Congratulations to Chris Stephenson who has received the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award for her work in advancing computer science education by architecting and nurturing the Computer Science Teachers Association. More information about Chris’ accomplishments may be found at: https://awards.acm.org/outstanding-contribution

Congratulations to three SIGCSE members who have been named as ACM Fellows: Juan E. Gilbert, Michael Littman, and Bhavani Thuraisingham.

Congratulations to SIGCSE members who have been awarded ACM Distinguished Member status. Christine Alvarado, Tim Bell, Andrew McGettrick, Lynn Andrea Stein, and Chris Stephenson were cited for Outstanding Educational Contributions to Computing, and Mats Daniels was cited for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing.

Congratulations to these outstanding members of the SIGCSE community!

The 2019 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education has been awarded to Professor Mark Guzdial, University of Michigan, USA.

The 2019 SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community has been awarded to Professor Gloria Childress Townsend, DePauw University, USA.

These awards will be presented at the 50th SIGCSE Technical Symposium being held in Minneapolis, MN, USA, from Feb 27 – March 2, 2019.

Congratulations to the following SIGCSE members who are recipients of the 2018 ACM Presidential Awards:

Donald Gotterbarn (Professor Emeritus, East Tennessee State University) for his role as chief architect of ACM’s Code of Professional Ethics.

Andrew McGettrick (Emeritus Professor, Strathclyde University) for his commitment to computer science education.

More about this award in the ACM press release .

Congratulations to Juan Gilbert and Manuel Pérez Quiñones who have been awarded the 2018 CRA A. Nico Habermann Award , which is given to people who have made outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and/or successes of underrepresented members in the computing research community. Details about Juan and Manuel's work is in the CRA announcement.

A timeline of SIGCSE events and milestones to be built during 2018

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 SIGCSE Awards.

The SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community has been awarded to Eric Roberts, Stanford University, USA.

The SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education has been awarded to Tim Bell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

These awards were presented at the 49th SIGCSE Technical Symposium being held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, February 21-24, 2018.

Congratulations to these outstanding members of the SIGCSE community.