Congratulations to UCF’s Student Chapter of The ACM

June 5, 2012

UCF’s student chapter of the ACM won the ACM’s Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Community Service 2011-2012. The ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards Program recognizes chapters that display considerable initiative during the academic year. Winning chapters in each of these five areas receive $500 and a “best of” icon to proudly display on their chapter’s Web page. These chapters are featured on the ACM Web site and in ACMMemberNet. The UCF ACM chapter won in the category of Outstanding Community Service. The award recognizes their work on several projects, including campus-wide events such as “Knights Give Back – UCF’s Day of Service”, help with the Florida Science Olympiad, and the “Robots R.O.C.K!” project that introduces robotics to elementary school children. For more details see http://www.acm.org/chapters/students/essay-contest/outstanding-community-service-2011-2012.