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 Call for Papers: CCSCNE 2026 CFP.pdf

Important Dates

EasyChair submission system opens	September 16, 2025
Paper, Panel, Tutorial, and Workshop submissions due	December 6, 2025 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
Undergraduate Student Poster notifications	March 10, 2026
Programming Contest team reservation deadline	March 17, 2026
Early registration deadline	March 23, 2026
Conference date	April 4-5, 2026

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

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

• Computer science education: curriculum issues, course development issues, course content issues
• Advanced topics in the computer science curriculum such as: object-oriented programming and design, networking, parallel processing, etc.
• Using information technology in the classroom
• Innovative ways to teach first year computing
• Grants and the small college
• Computing courses for non-majors
• Ethics and computing
• Student research
• K-12 computing curricula

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)