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CCSCNE 2026

30th annual conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region

Conference Program

2026 Student Posters

April 4-5, 2026

Hosted by:

Wheaton College

Norton, MA

https://ccscne.org/2026/

You are cordially invited to participate in the Twenty Ninth Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference.

We invite proposals for papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, faculty and graduate student posters and/or lightning talks, and undergraduate posters. All submissions are reviewed, and paper reviews are double anonymous. The proceedings of the conference are published as an issue of the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges and indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

PDF version of the Capp for Papers: CCSCNE 2026 CFP.pdf

Important dates

EasyChair submission system opens

September 16, 2025

Paper, Panel, Tutorial, and Workshop submissions due

December 13, 2025

Paper, Panel, Tutorial, and Workshop notifications

January 26, 2026

Faculty and Graduate Student Poster, and Lightning Talk submissions due

February 2, 2026

Faculty and Graduate Student Poster, and Lightning Talk notifications

February 16, 2026

Undergraduate Student Poster abstracts due

February 23, 2026

Conference date

April 4-5, 2026

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Papers presented at the conference address topics in computer science education. Appropriate areas include:

Contributions related to education from affiliated fields such as Information Systems and Computer Engineering are also welcome.

More details on paper submissions.

PANELS, TUTORIALS, AND WORKSHOPS

The conference supports faculty presentation of panels (multiple faculty with a variety of viewpoints or experience), tutorials (instruction by a faculty expert), and workshops (more in-depth instruction by a faculty expert).

More details on panels, tutorials, and workshops.

FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT POSTERS

Faculty and graduate students may present works in progress in either poster form, lightning talk, or both.

More (details on faculty and graduate posters.

FACULTY COHORTS

Faculty may participate in discussions at the conference with continuing conversations throughout the year.

More details on faculty cohorts.

UNDERGRADUATE POSTERS

We invite undergraduate students to participate in a poster session and competition during the conference. A faculty advisor must sponsor each poster.

More details on undergraduate posters.

PROGRAMMING CONTEST

We will hold a pre-conference programming contest for undergraduate students. Each team may have up to three students from a college or university.

More details on the programming contest.

REVIEWERS

We also invite faculty members to serve as volunteer reviewers. For information on reviewing, visit the reviewer web page (https://ccscne.org/?page=reviewing).

For any questions regarding the conference, contact conference chairs Adita Kulkarni and Jim Teresco (ne-conference-chairs@ccsc.org)