Electronic Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 2, 2003

Paper S031

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Corinna Mansfield, ISBN 0-321-30456-x, Copyright (C) 2005 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.


Recruiting Students in Computer Science and Mathematics through High School Programming and Mathematics Contests

Curt Jones


Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
USA

Lisa A. Lister


Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
USA


list of all papers by this author

John Polhill


Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
USA


list of all papers by this author

Click to access this paper: paper.pdf

ABSTRACT

While the overall enrollment of students in college has been increasing nationwide, the number of mathematics majors has been decreasing. At Bloomsburg University however, we have had a steady increase in mathematics and computer science majors since 1994. In this paper we discuss the methods we use to achieve this success and our plans for the future.

Keyword(s): applications, programming