Summer research students continue development of the JanDY survey system

The student team of Evan Altman, Michael Kiley, and Mark Powers presented their summer work on JanDY on Thursday, July 14. JanDY is the web survey system used at Hope each semester to administer the Student Evaluation of Learning and Teaching; JanDY is named for Janet Andersen and Mary DeYoung, two former members of the …

Introducing Bilancio!

On Thursday, July 14, the student team of Natalie Boardway, Joanie Davis, and Meredith Lind presented their summer work on Bilancio, an iPhone app they developed under the guidance of Dr. Mike Jipping.  Bilancio is designed to help Ready for Life students learn to budget and manage money. The students presented their work to a group of …

Students work on budgeting app for Ready for Life students

The team of Natalie Boardway, Joanie Davis, and Meredith Lind, under the direction of Dr. Jipping, has been working hard developing an iPhone app to teach money budgeting skills to adults with cognitive disabilities. We meet with our client roughly every two weeks. This arrangement allows the client to see the progress we’ve made so far and give input. It also gets the client thinking about additional operations he or she would like to see. These meetings are especially helpful for talking through how the app will be used and what operations would be beneficial to everyday usage.

The group has provided an update on their progress to date.

2016 summer research begins May 16

Monday, May 16 marks the start of the summer research season for 2016.  This year two teams of students will be working on two application development oriented projects. Professor Mike Jipping will be directing a project that will build iPhone apps to teach money budgeting skill to adults with cognitive disabilities.  This app will teach skills by …

2016 Computer Science Award Winners Announced

Congratulations to the 2016 Computer Science Award Winners, which were announced at the college-wide Honors Convocation on Thursday, April 28, 2016. The senior awards were given to Victoria Gonda and Palmer D’Orazio. The Computer Science Senior Prize is a book award given to the graduating senior deemed to be the outstanding student by the faculty of …