Special Projects 2025

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Since 2003 SIGCSE has awarded a limited number of Special Projects Grants each year. These grants help SIGCSE members investigate and introduce new ideas in the learning and teaching of computing. Projects must provide some clear benefit to the wider disciplinary community in the form of new knowledge, developing or sharing of a resource, or good practice in learning, teaching, or assessment.

Here is a list of the awards given in 2025.

Designing a Publicly Accessible, Interactive Repository for Contextualized Computing Education Materials

Oluwakemi Ola, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ethel Tshukudu, San Jose State University, USA
Sally Hamouda, Virginia Tech, USA
Award: $5,000
Award date: June 2025

Bridging the Gap in GenAI Supported Learning for Neurodiverse CS Students

Bedour Alshaigy, Uppsala University, Sweden
Yasmine Elgaly, Western Washington University, USA
Award: $5,000
Award date: June 2025

Exploring How Neurodiverse Students Engage with AI-Assisted Programming

Benjamin Xie, University of Denver, USA <benji.xie@du.edu>
Award: $5,000
Award date: December 2025

Involving the Authors: Integrating and Validating Research Evidence on Misconceptions

Matthias Hauswirth, USI, Lugano, Switzerland <matthias.hauswirth@usi.ch>
Award: $5,000
Award date: December 2025

Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Algorithms and Data Structures

Charles Cusack, Hope College, USA <cusack@hope.edu>
Award: $5,000
Award date: December 2025

Designing for Authentic Assessment: A Community Toolkit for Generative AI Integration in Computing Education

Akesha M. Horton, Indiana University Bloomington, USA <akmhorto@iu.edu>
Award: $5,000
Award date: December 2025

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