The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has committed to work on the goals outlined for the BRAID initiative.

Our goals for the next 2 years are as follow:

• We will continue promoting the taking of CSCE 1010 for non-major students and for students who are not prepared to take CSCE 1030, the introductory course to the major. We will also explore the possibility of developing discipline specific labs in CSCE 1010 for majors where there might be sufficient demand.

• We will continue offering a summer workshop for teachers to help them prepare for the new CS principles AP test. We will also continue offering camps to high school students and using BugCatcher to stimulate student interest in computer science.

• We will work to find industry matching funds for the BRAID funds to send as many students and faculty to the next Grace Hopper and Richard Tapia conferences that are in Texas.

• We will further develop our computational life sciences courses to encourage biology students to explore computer science.

• We will target our summer camp in 2016 to high school students from underrepresented groups, rather than middle school students.

• We will arrange high school competitions in the North Texas area for both programming and debugging.

• We will set aside BRAID funding for any students who wish to double-major in computer science and biology.

Visit BRAID Mission, BRAID History, BRAID Progress, and BRAID Events pages for further information.