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CSE's Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing completes sixth year![]() Summer Academy 2012 participants, sitting on the steps in Red Square The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing recently completed its sixth year of a 9-week academic program in computing for deaf and hard of hearing high school juniors and seniors and college freshmen and sophomores. Students completed a computer programming course for college credit, and a certificated class in animation, where students learned basic concepts of animation, including lighting, movement, shading, and storyboarding using Maya software. This year thirteen students from around the country completed the rigorous program. Working in three groups, they created short animated films, which provided students valuable lessons in leadership and working together as team members. During the Summer Academy, computing professionals who are deaf or hard of hearing were brought in from all over the country to meet with students and talk about their educational and work experience, how they addressed accessibility issues, and the projects on which they were currently working. These presentations were followed by one-on-one mentoring sessions. Guest speakers included employees from Amazon, Cray Supercomputing, IBM, Microsoft, and salesforce.com, among others. ![]() Students communicate in ASL in the CSE Atrium. Photo credit: Timothy Yu At least once a week, CSE graduate students gave presentations on their research in a variety of computing fields, covering such topics as mining from big data, programs that provide selffeedback in a variety of processes, privacy issues in designing social networking systems, and power saving strategies for enabling video conversations on cell phones. Additionally, grad students who were conducting research in the field of accessible technology presented on topics including MobileAccessibility, using smart phones to solve accessibility problems; ASL-STEM Forum, an online dictionary of American Sign Language terms in computing; and MobileASL, a project that is working to make video conversations in ASL possible on cell phone networks. These presentations provided academy students with a peek into how university research programs are conducted by grad students.
CSE grad Jason Behmer hosts the Summer
Academy at EMC Isilon Division. To the left of Jason are two avenues of accessibility available to the students, captioning and an American Sign Language interpreter. Photo credit: Timothy Yu
An important aspect of the Summer Academy is the ability to take students on field trips to the many software and hardware companies that are headquartered or have a significant presence in Seattle. Some of these visits included the opportunity to meet employees who are deaf and hard of hearing at Google and Microsoft. Other companies visited included Adobe, Isilon, and Valve. The Summer Academy is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Johnson Scholarship Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For more information on the academy, and links to the animation
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