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Title: 200506 Computer Science Summer Camps


1
2005-06 Computer Science Summer Camps
  • NMSU Department of Computer Science
  • Las Cruces, NM

2
2005 Summer Camps
  • Summer Session II 2005 at NMSU included
    participation of 12 college-level students from
    different NM two-year institutions. During the
    2005 College Computer Science Summer Camp, four
    females and eight males received credit for
    taking instruction in programming, computer
    graphics and web design, math for computer
    science, and bioinformatics. The college
    students worked collaboratively with 17 local
    high school students during the two-week section
    on bioinformatics. The goal to support a summer
    bridge program to include tribal and minority
    college students was met as they received
    exposure to bioinformatics and computer science.

3
Community College Demographics
  • Age
  • Female 2 20, 22, 28
  • Male 18, 19, 20, 23, 27, 32, 33, 42
  • Schools
  • Male Female
  • Technical Vocational Institute 1
  • Northern NM Community College 2
  • Santa Fe Community College 3
  • San Juan Community College 1
  • CIT 1 3
  • Dine College 1

4
CC Demographics (Cont.)
  • 12 Participants
  • Male Female
  • Native American 1 4
  • Hispanic 4
  • Caucasian 3

5
2005 Computer Science Summer Camp Students Staff
6
High School Demographics
  • Participating Schools
  • Onate High, Las Cruces High, Mayfield High
    School, Mesilla Valley Christian Schools
  • 10 Females 7 Males
  • 4 17 yrs 1 17 yrs
  • 5 16 yrs 5 16 yrs
  • 1 15 yrs 1 15 yrs

7
2005 High School Summer Camp
8
2005 CSSC Research Presentations
  • FIRST ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL BIOINFORMATICS SUMMER
    CAMP RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATIONS
  • NMSU Department of Computer Science - July 22,
    2005
  • Various research projects were completed by
    local high school students (from MHS, OHS, LCHS,
    and MVCS) in collaboration with community college
    students attending the NMSU Computer Science
    Summer Camp, Summer Session II. These college
    students attend Northern New Mexico Community
    College, Santa Fe Community College, San Juan
    Community College, TVI, Dine College, and the
    Crownpoint Institute of Technology. A question
    and answer session will take place with each
    student being available to share his/her research
    findingsplease feel free to mingle and partake
    of their learning experiences.
  • The NMSU College Computer Science Summer Camp
    and the High School Bioinformatics Summer Camp
    are made possible through funding from the
    National Science Foundation (CREST, MII, and ATE
    grants)
  • STUDENT TEAMS RESEARCH TOPICS
  • Gene RAD54 for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and Breast
    Cancer
  • Nicole Laferriere (OHS), Kyle Fitzpatrick (OHS),
    and Lori Kaneff (LCHS)
  • CDK4 and its Relation to Melanoma
  • Sarah Barrett (MVCS), Amy Esparza (OHS), and
    Ronald Good (SFCC)
  • Gene tp53 and its Role in Human Tumor Formation
  • Michael Harris (MHS), Cami Hutson (LCHS), and
    Elizabeth White (MVCS)
  • Narcolepsy-Hypocretin Receptor 2 (Orexin A)
  • Matthew Swart (SFCC), Ben Farner (NNMCC),
    Laurancita Whitney (CIT), and Purity Huskay (Dine
    College)
  • Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in Homo Sapiens caused
    by the Onocogene ETV6 (TEL)
  • Evan Bailey (MHS), Nathan Patterson (MVCS), and
    Melissa Patti (LCHS)

9
2005 CSSC/HS Bioinformatics Poster Presentations
10
Poster Presentations (Cont)
11
2006 CSSC Recruitment
  • September, 2005
  • New Mexico Jr. College, Hobbs, NM
  • Luna Community College, Las Vegas, NM
  • Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
  • November, 2005
  • Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
  • Northern NM Community College, Espanola, NM
  • Technical Vocational Institute, Albuquerque, NM
  • (SIPI) Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute,
    Albq., NM
  • UNM Gallup, Gallup, NM
  • NMSU Grants Campus - Grants, NM

12
2006 Recruitment (Cont.)
  • Visits to LCPS, MVCS, Dona Ana Branch Community
    College have occurred during the fall and spring
    semesters as well
  • February, 2006
  • UNM Gallup
  • (CIT) Crownpoint Institute of Technology -
    Crownpoint, NM
  • Dine College, Shiprock, NM
  • San Juan College, Farmington, NM
  • March
  • Dine College, Tsaile, AZ

13
Recruitment Suggestions
  • NCGR Collaborators Meeting - Santa Fe, NM (Feb.
    2006)
  • Recruitment Suggestions made by minority Native
    American staff from AISES (American Indian
    Science Engineering Society) Sandia
    Laboratories, and Hispanic staff NNMCC
  • Avoid attaching high expectations that Native
    Americans will indeed be placed in the sciences
    consider all recruitment efforts as strong
    options for students consideration
  • Get to know Native peoples history make
    programs relevant to their lives
  • Respect strong family ties that minority students
    possess (Native Hispanic)
  • Recruitment should occur consistently, by the
    same individual(s), and should be reflective of
    the cultures being recruited. Minority students
    respond most to recruiters who look most like
    them.

14
Recruitment Suggestions (Cont)
  • Address learning styles collaborate with public
    schools educators in an effort to make
    curriculum applicable to students learning
  • (It should be noted that prior to attending the
    NCGR meeting, a training had already taken place
    with LCPS MVCS educators to address this issue)
  • Emphasize future benefits of receiving computer
    science/bioinformatics training to students
    before and after attendance at summer camps

15
College Student Feedback
  • What did you like most about the CSSC?
  • Learning more about CS
  • Learning JAVA
  • Internet access in dorms
  • Resources available to us
  • Web design
  • Making new friends
  • The professors graduate students patience
    with us
  • The exposure to programming

16
HS Student Feedback
  • I fully enjoyed the fact that we were being held
    to high expectations because usually high school
    students arent thought to possess enough
    capacity to handle something so difficult
  • I enjoyed learning about all the online tools and
    databases available to researchers in
    bioinformatics
  • I like meeting new people, because I know that if
    we were in school, I would have never talked to
    anyone here.
  • The hands-on lab meeting new people.
  • The professors. All of them were extremely
    well-natured and helpful.
  • The lab at Skeen Hall.
  • The result of being challenged and learning
    something new.
  • I really enjoyed working on the poster.
  • I love hands-on science because it balances out
    lectures and applies to the real world.

17
Our Continued Goals
  • Expose community college students to various
    aspects of computer science and basic
    bioinformatics
  • Invite students to make a personal investment in
    themselves by expanding their knowledge in
    computer science
  • Provide students with program benefits in order
    to maximize academic performance

18
Funding Source
  • The CSSCs at NMSU are made possible through
    funding by
  • The National Science Foundation
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