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== Tactic #3: Freshman Innovation Program ==
<ul span style="font-size: 12.222222328186035px12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><li>Description: The mission of support the Freshman Innovation Howard University Pre-Freshmen in Computer Science Program (PREFICS). HU PREFICS is supported by the National Science Foundation. The requested funds are to educate add two (2) Ph.D. computer science students to increase teaching and mentoring support for the next three years. PREFICS is a three-week, virtual pre-college program for incoming Freshman Systems and Computer Science freshmen. The program is designed to introduce students to CS, some of its applications, the SCS department, concentration tracks, department expectations and opportunities, and basic CS principles. The program will be implemented using Piazza [7] and Skype [8], and leverages our “Introduction to Systems and Computer Science” course curriculum. Students will be introduced to CS through introductory lessons and assignments on Snap, AppInventor, HTML/CSS, Python, Unix, JavaScript, and Google AppEngine. An instructor team comprised of Dr. Nicki Washington, Dr. Legand Burge, and will lead PREFICS. All course material will be provided on innovationPiazza. This will allow students to not only access PREFICS content, but also begin to interact with and assist each other through posting and answering questions regarding content. All sessions will be available via the PREFICS YouTube channel for review later. All material presented in PREFICS, including course content and sessions, requires a basic computer with Internet access. A virtual implementation of PREFICS was chosen for the following reasons. First, the financial costs associated with housing, meals, insurance, etc. for approximately 25 incoming SCS freshmen per year was beyond the scope of this funding opportunity. In addition, it removes the financial strain associated with travel to and from Washington, DC that students and families would incur. All incoming students are provided the opportunity to participate in this program, thereby eliminating selection of a small few or only those who can afford to travel. PIs: Dr. Nicki Washington, Dr. </li>Legand Burge</ulspan>
= Strategy #2: Empowering Student Innovators at Howard<br/> =