Fri 20 Feb 2026 11:30 - 11:40 at Meeting Room 241-242 - Lightning Talks #2

This lightning talk presents an initiative to integrate professional identity development activities into a large enrollment undergraduate CS First Year Seminar course. This CS majors only, required, one-credit hour course is an opportunity to excite students about computing as a profession. In fall 2024, inspired by Fink’s Significant Learning Theory, where multiple dimensions contribute to changing how a student lives their personal and professional life, we added a reflection assignment and an external engagement requirement to foster professional identity. This experiential learning required three different types of campus activities outside the classroom: resume and interview preparation, networking with professionals, and student presentations. The first month students are required to participate in a Career Services workshop for resumes, interviewing, or decoding job postings. The following month, students participate in one of several corporate partner activities or workshops, and the final month they attend a student project expo or research poster presentation. The last assignment has each student write a personal mission statement and write a letter to their current self from their sixty year old self! The letters and missions are emailed to the students the next semester, to remind them of their larger goals as a professional. What are next steps for measuring influence and adjusting course activities? We can require a student attend and write a reflection, but how do we determine whether these promote learning to value computing as your professional identity? Are there practical measures to increase potential for integrating excitement for computing?

Fri 20 Feb

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10:40 - 12:00
10:40
10m
Talk
AI-Driven Oral Examinations for Code Assessment: Evaluating Understanding Beyond the Commit
Lightning Talks
Tim Tregubov Dartmouth College, Pape Sow Traore Dartmouth College
10:50
10m
Talk
Bringing Interactive Learning to Industrial IDEs: Kotlin Notebook and LLM-Generated Exercises
Lightning Talks
Daniil Karol Researcher at Education Research at JetBrains Research, Ksenia Shneyveys Kotlin Education Advocate at JetBrains, Roman Belov Software Developer at JetBrains, Anastasiia Birillo JetBrains Research
11:00
10m
Talk
Can Computer Science Instructors See Inside the Cognitive Black Box of Student AI Use?
Lightning Talks
Ronni Kurtzhals North Dakota State University, Anne Denton North Dakota State University, Terry Traylor North Dakota State University
11:10
10m
Talk
Enhancing Undergraduate Data Science Education Through Structured, Project-Based Learning
Lightning Talks
Weijie Pang Wentworth Institute of Technology, Mehmet Ergezer Wentworth Institute of Technology
11:20
10m
Talk
Gang of Four and GPT Make Five
Lightning Talks
11:30
10m
Talk
Integrating Professional Identity Development into Large-Scale CS First Year Seminar Courses
Lightning Talks
Kristine Nagel Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, Aibek Musaev Georgia Institute of Technology
11:40
10m
Talk
Responsible AI Use in Computer Science Education Research
Lightning Talks
Julie Smith Institute for Advancing Computing Education, Monica McGill Institute for Advancing Computing Education
11:50
10m
Talk
Teaching Computing with Purpose: Remote Community Partnerships as Scalable Pedagogy
Lightning Talks
Courtney Lamar Clark Atlanta University