Collaborative, creative, and fast-paced, WildHacks is Northwestern’s largest hackathon. The annual coding-based competition is designed for all students to learn and broaden their programming skills.

Research experience is an integral part of advanced undergraduate education, especially for students planning to enter graduate school. Over the summer, a cohort of 22 second- and third-year ...

Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school. But you’d never know that if you dropped by ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. The term “computer lab” might bring to mind a room filled ...

Hack … Hack … Goose! Counting down from 24 hours, the goose-themed hackathon began with students brainstorming, coding and developing projects with their teams.  With 183 participants, Freetail ...

The weekly Friday gathering gives students a place to build ambitious personal projects across disciplines, and members say ...

For school leaders, artificial intelligence (AI) might feel like the latest shiny new thing to tackle in education. With ethical questions to reflect on, it may be shiny, but computer science teachers ...

Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Join us for the Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase, where graduating seniors from Civil Engineering, Computer ...

Parking: Available in Lot 436 and the Regent Parking Garage for $5. Graduating seniors from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE) are set to showcase their capstone ...