CS K-12 Outreach

Few research papers & presentations from Summer 2023:

https://utdallas.box.com/v/su23-res-papers

https://utdallas.box.com/v/su23-res-prez

Program dates: June 3 – August 2 (9 weeks)
Application site:  utd.link/csr-app

Applications are CLOSED for the lab positions, but all workshops are still open to apply. All Summer Research offerings @ Google sheet utd.link/csr24

 

We believe that learning coding skills and understanding new technologies is the most productive way to spend summer months for the most high school students. Main challenge with research for HS students is that the advanced level of knowledge is required to understand the research that goes on in our labs & to make any meaningful contribution in short 2 months of Summer.

 

Scholarship for low income families is made possible by financial support from

Learning to code is like learning to play a musical instrument! It takes a lot of time, patience and practice. Please, please, please do NOT skip the introductory material covered in our summer camps and sign up directly for the research workshops – it will have the opposite effect – your child will lose the self-confidence and decide that Computer Science is not for him/her.

 

We have decided to offer 2 types of research opportunities this Summer:

  1. Intensive Research Internship in CS labs – typically meet in-person for multiple days per week – capacity in each lab is very limited – so we will be extremely selective! Selection process & goals are managed by individual labs. We expect each intern to work 20-40 hours per week – it will vary greatly depending on the project or lab. Actual work can vary a lot too: reading research papers, conducting simulations, develop app for specific functionality, etc.

There will be $500 fee to cover the logistics and compensation for the instructors (we will accommodate the low income families with discounted fees). Once you are selected for Internship, you are expected to register within a week to keep your spot. There will be $50 cancellation fee.
Warning: We expect the lab intern selection to be highly selective. Do not be disappointed if you don’t get selected. We don’t mean to discourage you, rather we want you to be realistic about the chances. Best wishes!

  1. Summer Research Workshops – Each workshop is run like informal college courses that meets at least twice per week – students can attend IN-PERSON or ONLINE (all sessions will be recorded to help the attendees to catch up if any sessions are missed due to other summer commitments) – typical goal of each workshop is to end with a final project or paper related to the research area. However, we will NOT push the students to do them – we will enable them by providing the necessary support & guide them towards their goals. There will be $500 fee to attend these Summer Research workshops. Once you are selected for this Summer Research program, you are expected to register within a week to keep your spot. There will be $50 cancellation fee. However, if you are admitted to a lab later, we will be happy to transfer you to the lab. We also have 8-week Deep-dive AI workshop which runs for the whole day for 8 weeks! Registration fee is $1200. See the details below.

 

Who can apply?

These research opportunities are ONLY for passionate & highly motivated advanced level high school students (ideally students finishing 10th and 11th grade) who are thrilled to dig deep and gain more knowledge with minimal guidance. If you are hoping for a lot of hand-holding along the way, these opportunities are not for you! 🙁 Especially for lab internships, we expect you to have good background knowledge in the research areas you are interested in.

Google sheet utd.link/csr24 contains the listing of current Summer Research offerings. You can also visit UTDCS department research page to understand research that goes on in our research labs/institutes/centers. BTW, professors’ schedules are extremely busy – please do NOT email them directly – reach out to Dr. Jey at jeyv@utdallas.edu if there are any questions.

8 week Deep-dive AI Workshop – June 3 to August 1, 2024 (with July 1-5 break)

Application process through https://k12.utdallas.edu/research

UTD CS is thrilled to offer Artificial Intelligence Workshop for 8 weeks for College Students & Advanced Level High School Students. This camp actually runs Monday to Friday for all 8 weeks (9:30am-4pm) with lunch break for an hour. In-person attendance is strongly recommended. Supervision will be provided from 8:30am to 5pm. We will send a camp completion certificate to each camper. We will also send a write-up/recommendation letter based on the student’s performance.

Pre-requisites: Familiarity with Python programming, and high school level math. Willing to invest time & energy to learn advanced level coding, data analysis skills and apply them to a real life project.

Instructors: UTD CS graduate students, with Dr. Anurag Nagar & Dr. Anjum Chida as the faculty leads.

Registration fee is $1200, very reasonable for 8 week intense program like this one, we understand that the low income families may find it hard to pay it – as a public state institution, our goal is never to turn away any interested Texas students due to money. We offer 50% discount for low-income families. Send any meaningful documentation to csk12@utdallas.edu to apply. See the bottom of utdallas.edu/k12 for more details.

In case you change your mind later & decide not to attend this program, there is just $50 cancellation fee – remaining amount will be refunded back to you. Also, pro-rated amount will be refunded if you decide to quit in the middle of the program.

LIST OF TOPICS:

1. Introduction to Python programming, tools for data analysis such as NumPy, pandas, graphics.

2. Getting started with data processing – various file formats, loading into data frames and performing basic statistical operations.

3. Introduction to machine learning, with examples and real life scenarios.

4. AI/ML model building – decision trees, neural networks, etc.

5. Deep Neural Nets using TensorFlow

6. Convolution Neural Nets(CNN) and Recursive Neural Nets (RNN)

7. Model Evaluation – accuracy, error, ROC curve

8. Project Activities

 

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