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Recent News & Upcoming Events

• January 30 - February 1, 2011 : Rick Ainsworth and Alfonso Cardenas participated in the meeting of the new NSF initiative Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) in New Orleans, La.
  
  
• January 30 - February 1, 2011 : Project leaders of the NSF BPC initiative funding our UCLA FOCUS project participated to further the new CE21 initiative, New Orleans, La.
  
  
• January 31 - February 2, 2010 : Rick Ainsworth, Alfonso Cardenas, David Smallberg, Ruby Vargas Lainez, Marc Levis, David Kasch, Alice Ho and Shannon Toma attended the National Science Foundation meeting in Marina del Rey, Ca., of Principal and Co-Principal Investigators and project evaluators in the Broadening Participation in Computing program.
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• August 28, 2009: FOCUS Computing Immersion Summer Experience (CISE) participants visited the West Los Angeles office of Cisco. CISE participants met via Cisco TelePresence technology with current FOCUS students working in Northern California Cisco summer internships.
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• April 23, 2009: A meeting will be held in Boelter Hall 4760 on Thursday, April 30, 2009, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, to address research opportunities for CS and CSE diversity undergraduates to be involved in various projects in the Information and Data Management field. All students are welcome to attend.
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• February 9-10, 2009: Rick Ainsworth and Alfonso Cardenas attended the National Science Foundation meeting in Charlotte N. C., of Principal and Co-Principal Investigators in the Broadening Participation in Computing program. Both Rick and Alfonso shared information about their experiences with the UCLA FOCUS program with other participants.
  
  Reference: 2009 BPC Community Meeting
  
  
• September 4, 2008: FOCUS Computing Immersion Summer Experience (CISE) participants toured Yahoo!'s Santa Monica campus. Yahoo representatives hosted lunch and a presentation on the existing computing career opportunities at Yahoo!
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• May 8, 2008: A meeting will be held in Boelter Hall 4760 on Thursday, May 15, 2008, from 4:00 to 5:15 pm, to address research opportunities for CS and CSE diversity undergraduates to be involved in various projects in the Information and Data Management field. All students are welcome to attend.
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• April 25, 2008: Rick Ainsworth and Alfonso Cardenas attended the National Science Foundation meeting in Seattle, Wa., of Principal and Co-Principal Investigators in the Broadening Participation in Computing program. Both shared experiences of the UCLA FOCUS program with other participants. Read more >