Suzanne Menzel

News:

Making IT Real received $15,000 of funding from NCWIT.

I received an Avon Hello Tomorrow Fund award to support Bring IT On!, an initiative designed to propagate K-12 outreach programs to other schools. You can hear me on WFIU and WGCL. [NCWIT blog]

Upcoming Events:

Apr 12, 2008: Bring IT On! reunion at IUPUI Conference Center

May 29-30, 2008: Roadshow workshop at Google, Mountain View, CA (group picture) (read article in CSTA Voice)

The World:

"For every 100 boys out of school, there are 115 girls in the same situation." — The State of the World's Children 2007

Suzanne Menzel

	Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science School of Informatics Indiana University WIC@IU executive committee Just Be faculty advisor Bring IT On! organizer ACM-W working committee Grace Hopper 2007 BoF committee

Recent Events

Mar 12-15, 2008: presenting a paper about regional celebrations, Grace Hopper in the Neighborhood, at SIGCSE.
Jan 25-26, 2008: InWIC is a Regional Celebration of Women in Computing.
Oct 26-28, 2007: Bring IT On! is a diversity workshop for students and faculty from IU's regional campuses, Rose-Hulman, and Earlham
March 9, 2007
SIGCSE workshop: Demystifying and Degeekifying Computing through K-12 Outreach (pdf)
Covington, KY (NCWIT blog entry) (materials)
January 26, 2007
Indiana Computer Educators workshop: Demystifying and Degeekifying Computing Careers, Indianapolis, IN (pdf) (press release)
September 29-30, 2006
Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing (MidWIC)
DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
In conjunction with the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges
PAST EVENTS

Publications

Leveling the CS1 Playing Field
Gloria Childress Townsend, Suzanne Menzel, and Katie A. Siek. Proceedings of SIGCSE 2007. (pdf)

Propagating Diversity through Active Dissemination
Katie A. Siek, Kay Connelly, Suzanne Menzel, and Laura Hopkins. IEEE Computer, Feb 2007. (pdf)

Three Perspectives on Peer Tutoring for CS1
Sarah Loos, Suzanne Menzel, and Melanie Poparad. Proceedings of the Midwest Celebration of Women in Computing conference (MidWIC), pp 28-31, September 2006. (pdf)

Just Be: Breaking the Geek Myth
Katie A. Siek, Kay H. Connelly, Amanda Stephano, Suzanne Menzel, Jacki Bauer, and Beth Plale. In Learning and Leading with Technology, April 2006. (pdf)

The Under-representation of Women in IU Computer Science Undergraduate Degree Program
Beth Plale and Suzanne Menzel, Internal Report, March 2005. (pdf)

Java Engagement for Teaching Training: An Experience Report
Raja Sooriamurthi, Arijit Sengupta, Suzanne Menzel, Katie Moor (Siek), Sid Stamm and Katy Börner
Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp T2D 1-6, Savannah, Florida, October, 2004.
(pdf) (ppt)

Teaching

I received the Computer Science Departmental Teaching Award in 2006 and 2004, and the Trustees Teaching Award for Lecturers in 2006. I was nominated for the Student Choice Award for Outstanding Faculty in 2006, 2005 and 1998.

Spring 2007

C211: Introduction to Computer Science
C212: Introduction to Software Systems

PREVIOUS SEMESTERS

Contact Information

Office Phone
(812) 855-0778

US Mail
Suzanne Menzel
Lindley Hall 215
150 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104

Links

Women in Programming

Last updated: July, 2007