MSUM students are doing amazing things. Our students embrace diversity, challenges, opportunities, unique experiences and continue to produce incredible results. Our students participate in student organizations, attend and present at regional and national conferences, compete at regional and national competitions, collaborate on faculty-mentored projects, gain hands-on experience through internships, help coordinate community service projects, and more. Many have won prestigious scholarships for academic excellence and many have won awards for their stellar work inside and outside of the classroom. See what the students from the Computer Science and Information Systems Department are doing.
Aaron Taggert, Computer Science
"People think of universities as you are going to be in a room with hundreds of people, and MSUM is a lot different. I like the smaller classes and I know that all the department teachers know me by name. I really like MSUM."
Sam Sussman, Computer Science
"The MSUM chapter of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) is a community which provides an opportunity to talk to people who are in a higher level than you and to be challenged and have a push to do better in the department. People who are pretty involved in ACM really do better in the department. I wasn’t a leader until I joined ACM."
Twelve Computer Science and Information Systems students attended the annual Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium last April in Duluth. Activities included a computer programming contest, where student teams competed against each other to solve seven interesting and challenging programming problems. Andrew Dahl, Sam Sussman and Aaron Taggart took second place over a field of 39 competing teams from universities throughout the Upper Midwest. MSUM students had four teams of three students participate in the contest.
Natasha Smith talks about her experience
