Month: December 2013

Tech students headed to world finals of International Collegiate Programming Contest

A team of Michigan Tech undergraduates (Computer science students Tom Holmes and Eric Rinkus and math major Ryan McNamara) have earned the right to go to Russia to compete in the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest next June, by finishing fifth in the North Central regional qualifying contest. Holmes, Rinkus and McNamara . . .

Jackson Blended Learning Award

Computer Science Lecturer Leo Ureel is the recipient of a $5000 Jackson Life Blended Learning Grant from the Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning. Grants were awarded to blended learning projects that are strategically transformative, have demonstrated need, and will have broad impacts. Mr. Ureel’s project, “Canvas Teaching Assistant”, will provide students with a highly . . .