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Engaging and Motivating Students Through Programming Competitions and GIS Applied Research Projects

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Author	Sugihara, Kenichi Khmelevsky, Youry Chidlow, Ken Zhang, Kongwen
Abstract	In this presentation we report on two approaches related to engaging and motivating students: programming competitions and applied research projects. We report on student programming competition results of students from the Computer Science Department (COSC) of Okanagan College (OC) and discuss the achieved results from an educational point of view. Students reported that participation in competitions gave them motivation to effectively learn in their programming courses, inspire them to learn deeper and more thoroughly, and help them achieve better results in their classes. In addition we have found that some freshmen and sophomore students in diploma and degree programs are very capable and eager to be involved in applied research projects as early as the second semester. In 2016 COSC won a fifth NSERC Engage College applied research grant with Esri Canada and Gifu-Keizai University (Japan): Roof Damage Assessment from Automated 3D Building (http://tinyurl.com/lz85n7d). The project is still on-going, but students are excited and enjoy working with the GIS systems, tools and 3D modelling. Dr. Sugihara from Gifu-Keizai University conducted training for the students during his short visit to the College and worked with the students. He demonstrated how to digitize building polygons from orthophotography and how to automatically generate general shaped 3D building models with roofs, based on non-orthogonal input building polygons (building footprints). In 2016 COSC students achieved 2nd place in Canada and 125th of 2,200 teams globally at the IEEEXtreme 10th annual student programming competition (http://tinyurl.com/ltk3n87) (compared with 2015, 25th in Canada and in top 500 world-wide http://tinyurl.com/k4utmmg). Then in 2017 a pair of OC computer science students logged an impressive showing at MIT's longest running programming competition âĂIJBattlecode" against 1000+ teams. In Okanagan College's very first appearance at the competition, two freshman students placed 49th overall, competing against top post-secondary institutions from all over the world (http://tinyurl.com/kjxp3mm).
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ISBN	9781450350662
DOI	10.1145/3085585.3088491
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2017-05-05
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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