Awards and Project Presentations

A student or group of students who performed a project towards achieving inclusion, diversity, equity, and justice (EDIJ) in Computing Science Research, Educational, and Professional Practices may submit their project for this award.

• The project may be a course project, capstone project, or an independent student research or implementation project.
• EDIJ goals may be met in the project subject and goals or the associated practices.

The submission process is through self-nomination: Students submit their project and argument for eligibility to be considered for this award.

The CS Diversity Award will be awarded to a project performed by a student or a group of students, meeting either of the following requirements.

1. Subject & Goals: The subject of the project or research is on use of computing science and technology to meet and enhance upon EDIJ goals, including but not limited to the following categories

• Technology for social good (e.g., data access, accessibility practices, digital democracy, digital justice solutions, etc.)
• Combating biases and ill-practices in computing science education and professional practices (e.g., debiasing AI, Combating misinformation and disinformation, etc.)
• Endeavor to demonstrate intellectual excellence in addressing EDIJ goals in computing science

2. Participants & Practices: The student or the student team shows excellence and commitment to EDIJ in practice

• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in team forming (e.g., minority representation or gender-diversity in teams)
• Use of EDIJ research or practice methodologies (e.g., channels for including historically marginalized ideas)

Selection Process

• The award is adjudicated by the members of the Computing Science Diversity Committee.
• A set of projects will be selected by CSDC for presentation. All projects selected for the presentation day will be highlighted on the CSDC website. 
• The final award announcement among the presented projects will be made on the day of the presentations by the award committee.

Students whose projects are selected will be notified on March 27, 2025. The presentation and final award ceremony will be held in person at the Big Data Hub Presentation Studio on April 7, 2025.