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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb 2025 16:22 - 16:41 at Meeting Room 407 - CS for All

Computer science’s multidisciplinary importance is becoming widely recognized, and few fields are seeing this change more rapidly than agriculture. One example is the advent of Precision Agriculture, which leverages advancements in technology to monitor crops and livestock and precisely apply nutrients, herbicides, etc. for the overall health of the crop. Such innovations will upset the status quo, creating an opportunity for greater equity in emerging CS job markets. However, CS opportunities are not equitably distributed both socioeconomically and geographically, with most CS opportunities existing in wealthier metropolitan areas. We surveyed and interviewed K-12 agriculture teachers from Rural Title 1 schools in North Carolina, and interviewed them about their experiences, visions of the future of agriculture, the emerging AgTech economies, and difficulties they had adjusting to these shifting agricultural domains in their teaching. These teachers form the first phase of the Rural CS+Agriculture Alliance, which will focus on the creation of curriculum to support the integration of computer science topics into rural agriculture classrooms.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb

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15:45 - 17:00
15:45
18m
Talk
Emotions and Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Computing and Engineering Students: A Systematic Literature Review
Papers
Rakhi The Ohio State University, Zahra Atiq The Ohio State University
16:03
18m
Talk
Rooted in the Collective: A Culturally Situated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education Workshop For Urban Farmers
Papers
Sukanya Kannan Moudgalya University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Carmen Palileo University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Srinayana Patil University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Rhema Linder University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sai Swaminathan University of Tennessee, Knoxville
16:22
18m
Talk
The Rural CS+Agriculture Alliance Research Practitioner Partnership: Experience Report
Papers
Joseph Wiggins Katabasis, Benjamin Taylor Katabasis, Alexandra Cail Katabasis, Jorge Parra Katabasis, Julianna Martinez Ruiz Katabasis, William Causey Katabasis
16:41
18m
Talk
Designing Courses for Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Contextualized around Creative Expression and Social Justice
Papers
Mark Guzdial University of Michigan, Tamara Nelson-Fromm University of Michigan