CCSCNE 2026 (April 4-5)

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

Conference Program 2025 Student Posters
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Hosted by: Wheaton College Norton, MA April 4-5, 2026


You are cordially invited to participate in the Thirtieth 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 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.

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).

FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT POSTERS

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

FACULTY COHORTS

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

UNDERGRADUATE POSTERS

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

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.

REVIEWERS

We also invite faculty members to serve as volunteer reviewers. For information on reviewing, visit the reviewer web page.

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