The members of CR2G participate as often as possible, in the El Paso area, in outreach activities (to school and/or the community). Below are examples of these activities:

• NEXUS internship host: program for high-school students.

The Nexus Program is a shadowing internship program for high-school students in the college of engineering at UTEP. In my lab, CR2G at UTEP, I invite high-school students in my lab in summer. Their internship is much more than shadowing, since shadowing could be extremely boring in computer science.

In fact, students participating in NEXUS at CR2G get to learn a variety of programming languages, they learn presentation and team-working skills, they work on and complete two different projects, they participate in our research via testing and reporting, and so much more!…

From the updates page page, you can access the work of each of our interns.

• NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing — El Paso Las Cruces affiliate
• Keynote speaker and judge of applications in 2010-2011
• Coordinator of the local competition since 2011
• UTEP’s Project MOVE / Serving the community: CR2G participated by going and painting parts of a shelter for women in El Paso
• Orange and Blue Day at UTEP in fall 2011: presentations about computer science and CR2G

• Research Day at UTEP, April 10, 2010
• Members of our team have been judges at Science fairs (e.g., Harmony Science Academy) and at Engineering Project Symposia (e.g., Parkland High School)
• We also regularly participate in Career expos/fairs: e.g., Mitzi Bond Elementary School, Loretto Academy
• UTEP visits, as organizers or hosts