Computer Science Community Service

CS3604: Professionalism in Computing

If you are a professionalism student and you want to check your hours, they are available at http://www.cs2.org.vt.edu/3604.

Beeks Websites

One of the topics we covered during the Margaret Beeks sessions was web page development. See their work!

Club Social

Stress Relief!

This semester's social was a success! We set up a video game night to relieve some of the stress from constantly working on curricula in addition to school work.

We brought in an additional projector as well as a portable flat screen television in order to run multiple games at once. The main video game was the new Smash Brothers Brawl for Nintendo Wii using the Game Cube controllers. We also had Halo for Xbox and another version of Smash Brothers for Nintendo 64.

Thanks to everyone who showed up or brought a system to help make this evening a success!

Welcome to CS²

Who we are:

Computer Science Community Service (CS² for short) is a student-run, volunteer organization dedicated to teaching computer skills in the community, often focusing on bridging the ever-widening digital divide.

CS² provides a great opportunity for computer science students to use their knowledge obtained in the classroom and from outside work experience to improve their local communities. The organization does everything from building and administering computer labs for youth and technology centers to creating computer clubs in local elementary schools to teach children computer skills. The members are dedicated to the cause of bettering their surrounding, and because of this, CS² continues to grow each semester.

The organization receives its funding primarily from the generous donations of the CSRC (Computer Science Resources Consortium) and any computer hardware used in remote sites is either donated or purchased using these funds. Members do not pay any dues to join and there are no traditional fundraisers to raise money. Instead, CS² aggressively pursues grants and donations from companies, other organizations, and the university to fund its cause. Without such donations, CS² would cease to do the great things that it has done in the past!