CCSCNE 2026
30th annual conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region
April 10-11, 2026
Hosted by:
Smith College
Northampton, MA
https://ccscne.org/
You are cordially invited to participate in the Thirtieth Annual CCSC Northeastern Conference.
We invite proposals for papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, faculty and graduate student posters and/or lightning talks, and undergraduate posters. All submissions are reviewed, and paper reviews are double anonymous. The proceedings of the conference are published as an issue of the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges and indexed in the ACM Digital Library.
PDF version of the Call for Papers:
CCSCNE 2026 CFP.pdf
Important Dates
| Conftool Pro submission system opens
| October 17, 2025 |
| Paper, Panel, Tutorial, and Workshop submissions due
| December 5, 2025extended December 8, 2025 |
| Paper, Panel, Tutorial, and Workshop notifications
| January 25, 2026 |
| Faculty and Graduate Student Poster, and Lightning Talk submissions due
| February 1, 2026 |
| Faculty and Graduate Student Poster, and Lightning Talk notifications
| February 15, 2026 |
| Undergraduate Student Poster abstracts due
| March 1, 2026 |
| Undergraduate Student Poster notifications
| March 16, 2026 |
| Programming Contest team reservation deadline
| March 13, 2026 |
| Early registration deadline
| March 29, 2026 |
| Conference date | April 10-11, 2026 |
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Papers are welcome in two tracks.
Track 1: Computer Science Education & Pedagogy
Appropriate areas include innovations in curriculum and
course content and development at the K-12, non-majors,
introductory and advanced levels, pedagogies and
experiences supporting student research, using IT in the
classroom, and ethics.
Track 2: Demo & Applied Computing (NEW for 2026)
Demonstrate prototypes, applications, or systems in the
intermediate to advanced stages of development. Includes
applied computing areas and case studies of innovative
projects. Must be relevant to computing education.
Contributions related to education from affiliated fields such as Information Systems and Computer Engineering are also welcome.
For more information, visit the papers webpage (
https://ccscne.org/?page=papers).
PANELS, TUTORIALS, AND WORKSHOPS
The conference supports faculty presentation of panels (multiple faculty with a variety of viewpoints or experience), tutorials (instruction by a faculty expert), and workshops (more in-depth instruction by a faculty expert).
For more information, visit the presenting webpage (
https://ccscne.org/?page=presenting).
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT POSTERS
Faculty and graduate students may present works in progress in either poster form, lightning talk, or both.
FACULTY COHORTS
Faculty may participate in discussions at the conference with continuing conversations throughout the year.
UNDERGRADUATE POSTERS
We invite undergraduate students to participate in a poster session and competition during the conference. A faculty advisor must sponsor each poster.
PROGRAMMING CONTEST
We will hold a pre-conference programming contest for undergraduate students. Each team may have up to three students from a college or university.
REVIEWERS
We also invite faculty members to serve as volunteer reviewers. For information on reviewing, visit the reviewer web page
(
https://ccscne.org/?page=reviewing).
For any questions regarding the conference, contact conference chairs Jordan Crouser and Adita Kulkarni
(
ne-conference-chairs@ccsc.org)