Google Provides Computer & Information Science Students with $10,000 Gift

Pictured from left to right are: Naomi Baisa, Christina Andrade, Soham Shah, Jessica Lozano, Diana Veldes (student leader), Ed Moskal (department chair), Karl Syffrard, Kiesa Jafri, Angel Perez, Amanda Rodriguez and Chris Beyer. Not pictured are Hamza Akmal and Ahmed Shamron. Congratulations to this impressive group of students!

The Department of Computer & Information Sciences and 12 computer science majors have been awarded a gift of $10,000 from the Google, Incorporated, igniteCS program. The igniteCS program is an initiative led by Google to support student groups that are committed to developing and delivering a computer science outreach program in their community (K-12). The outreach program, which will be for schools in the Jersey City public school system, will begin in the fall of this year and continue until May 2017. Education and mentoring will be available in areas such as the fundamentals of computer science, computer programming using interactive software, game building/programming, web page design, robotics, cyber security, digital forensics, computer ethics and cyber bullying and computer assembly.