Departmental Student Organizations and Activities

Baldwin Wallace Student ACM Chapter

The Computer Science Club became an official student chapter of ACM, the leading organization for computer professionals, in 2004. It continues to be a very active departmental organization.

Major projects for the chapter each year typically include:

• several invited speakers and/or panels
• numerous LAN parties
• a speed-interviewing event with the CS Advisory Board
• the annual Baldwin Wallace High School Programming Competition
• a beginning-of-year and an end-of-year picnic

CyberSec

CyberSec is the Cybersecurity competitive group lead by Professor Atchinson.

The CyberSec teams competes in the following annual competitions:

• CCDC - Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
• CPTC - Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition
• CyberForce - Department of Energy Cyber Defense Competition
• DevNetSec Lockdown - A CCDC-like Competition head at SUNY Buffalo
• NCL - National Cyber League

The CyberSec teams have won many competitions. In CCDC, the CyberSec team placed 1st place in the Regional CCDC and placed 9th place in the National CCDC competition. In CPTC, the team placed 2nd place in the Regional CPTC and 9th place in the National CPTC. In NCL, the team placed 1st place Nationally.

Programming Team

Computer science students at Baldwin Wallace have been participating in collegiate programming competitions for almost two decades. Each fall, one or more teams compete at the the regional-level of the ACM International Programming Contest. Our region (East Central Region) includes teams from some premiere computing institutions, including Carnegie Melon, University of Waterloo, University of Michigan, Purdue, etc. Since 2009, Muskingum has hosted an annual "warm-up" to the regional contest.

BW also competes regularly in contests held at Ohio liberal arts institutions. In the fall, teams prepare for the regional ACM contest at the Annual Muskingum Programming Contest. In February, BW teams travel to the Annual Denison Spring Programming Contest followed, about a month later, by the Annual Ohio Wesleyan Programming Contest.

National Honoraries

KME

Baldwin Wallace University is the home of the Ohio Gamma Chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon, National Mathematics Honor Society. This BW chapter was chartered in 1947. Twenty new members were initiated at the March 24, 2013 ceremony.

UPE

The Baldwin Wallace Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honorary Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, was established in 2004. On March 24, 2013, the tenth induction ceremony was held and five new members were inducted.

Since 2012, KME and UPE induction ceremonies are held in conjuction with the departmental awards ceremony. After the event, inductees and award winners are joined by their families, friends, several award sponsors, and faculty members for a reception in their honor.