Subburaj, V. H., & Subburaj, A. S., & Lockwood-Cooke, P. R., & Meador, A. (2023, June), Board 352: NSF S-STEM: Inclusive Hackathon Themes to Attract Underrepresented Community College Students into Computing Disciplines  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42988

\bibitem{asee_peer_42988}
  Subburaj, V. H., \& Subburaj, A. S., \& Lockwood-Cooke, P. R., \& Meador, A. (2023, June), \emph{Board 352: NSF S-STEM: Inclusive Hackathon Themes to Attract Underrepresented Community College Students into Computing Disciplines}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42988

Vinitha Hannah Subburaj, Anitha Sarah Subburaj, Pamela Renee Lockwood-Cooke, and Audrey Meador.  "Board 352: NSF S-STEM: Inclusive Hackathon Themes to Attract Underrepresented Community College Students into Computing Disciplines".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42988 Internet.  12 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_42988}
  Vinitha Hannah Subburaj, Anitha Sarah Subburaj, Pamela Renee Lockwood-Cooke, and Audrey Meador.
  "Board 352: NSF S-STEM: Inclusive Hackathon Themes to Attract Underrepresented Community College Students into Computing Disciplines".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42988 Internet.  12 Mar, 2025

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title = "Board 352: NSF S-STEM: Inclusive Hackathon Themes to Attract Underrepresented Community College Students into Computing Disciplines"
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AB  - There is a broad agreement that part of the solution in attracting more underrepresented students to computing disciplines is to influence students early on in their educational pathways. The NSF S-STEM Scholarship program at a minority serving institution organized Hackathons with inclusive themes as one of the strategies to attract and recruit more underrepresented, underserved, and under-prepared community college students transferring into computing disciplines. This initiative successfully attracted underrepresented student groups (2022: 62 students, 52% Hispanic, 27% female, 2021: 39 students, 23% Hispanic, 16% female) to these Hackathons conducted in an in person as well as in an online format. The Hackathon brought together individuals from 2-year community colleges and a 4-year rural minority serving institution to work on challenging computing projects in a short amount of time. The main objectives of these Hackathons were to (i) create a strong sense of community and an environment where every student felt welcomed; (ii) engage students from different backgrounds to learn about each other and come together to solve computational problems; (iii) to strengthen the communication between students early on in their computing experience and student who are relatively new to the field of computing. This paper will discuss the design of inclusively themed Hackathons, the logistics involved during planning, the execution, the challenges faced, and the impact it created to broaden the participation of underrepresented, underserved, and under-prepared community college students in computing related activities.
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