Tags: Student Success

Starting this year, the School of Computing has instituted new awards to recognize students with publications in top venues. The first cohort of advisees was announced during the annual research day on 18th April. The awardees were:     Aiman Munir for their publication Anchor-Oriented Localized Voronoi Partitioning for GPS-denied Multi-Robot Coverage at IROS ’24.   Nicolas Nino for their publication Unveiling IoT…

By: Mianna Lotshaw When people hold a world information in their electronics, can they find community within them? Eddie Alexander Gomez Schieber explores this question by looking at the power of communities created in the algorithmic world and the positive impact it can have.   Gomez, a Ph.D. student working with Ari Schlesinger, assistant professor in the School of Computing, in human-centered computing. He is a member of Schlesinger’s…

This spring, teams from UGA’s School of Computing competed in the South East Region of the annual algorithmic programming contest held by International Competitive Programming Contest (ICPC). ICPC is the oldest and largest programming contest in the world.  The competition was held at UNG Dahlonega, one of the sites for the Southeast region of the competition. The competition lasted five hours and each team was made up of a maximum of three…

This spring, UGA’s School of Computing’s The Hack Pack team placed second in the Southeast at the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) Cyber Game and is advancing to the national invitational this  April. Throughout six hours of competition, as part of the blue team, the Hack Pack defended critical infrastructure in a high-stakes, intense competition against the opposing red team. The red team launched many…

Morgan McGrath, right, meets with Christina Koch, center, a NASA astronaut, during her internship with NASA’s Electrical Test Team. Prior to her December 2024 graduation, honors computer science student Morgan McGrath interned with NASA on the Electrical Test Team at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. Through her internship, McGrath was able to apply her knowledge from the School of Computing to the real world as she learned…

Congratulations to [from left] Natalie Mayer, Hilton Del Valle, Wilber Clonts, and Colton Karaffa for being the First Place Winners of CodeHub's Fall '24 Project Track.   These students created Polaris, an HR management tool using a combination of React, Spring Boot, and Postgres! Users can add companies, manage clock-ins, view graphs of expenses vs profits, pay employees, and more!   Explore their exciting project here…

This past fall semester, the University of Georgia’s chapter of Girls Who Code significantly expanded its impact into the Athens-Clarke School District. 26 club members hosted nearly 50 interactive workshops, reaching over 60 students from third to twelfth grade. Girls Who Code is pivotal in shaping a more inclusive and innovative future for the computing industry, signifying the importance of involvement in the local school districts. “There…