Paper Info
Title
Integrating international students' contests with computer sciecnce capstone: Lessons learned and best practices
Abstract
Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world's premier student technology competition. Every year students from all over the world compete to solve the world toughest problems in different categories. In ten years, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real-world problems. Since 2003, over 1.4 million students have participated in the Imagine Cup with 358,000 students representing 183 countries and regions registering for the Imagine Cup 2011 competition [7]. In this paper, we present our experience in integrating imagine cup (IC) with computer science (CS) capstone courses at the American University of Kuwait (AUK). In the past four years, we coached four different teams in three consecutive years (2009–2012) to win Microsoft Imagine cup in the Gulf region (GCC region includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE) and qualify to the world finals. We present our best practices and three case studies of winning projects in the region (one of the three teams was totally formed of girls). We will also present the lessons learned and guidelines on how to integrate such design competitions with computer science capstone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/FIE.2012.6462385
Frontiers in Education Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer aided instruction,computer science education,educational courses,student experiments,AUK,American University of Kuwait,Microsoft Imagine Cup,computer science capstone courses,international students,student technology competition,Collaborative learning,Software Engineering,software engineering education
Computer aided instruction,Collaborative learning,Best practice,Sociology,Capstone,Cultural diversity,Mathematics education
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0190-5848 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1351-3
978-1-4673-1351-3
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
4
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amir Zeid1112.22