Computing for the Social Good in Education (CSG-Ed) deals with methods for producing computing graduates who are focused on using their computing education towards the benefit of society. We invite current CSG-Ed practitioners and those interested in becoming practitioners to discuss how to mentor those interested in this approach to become successful practitioners.

Many CSG-Ed practitioners came to this approach on their own, developing curricula and strategies in a vacuum. Other CSG-Ed practitioners read a paper[2–4], attended a talk, conference special session[5], or a previous SIGCAS-sponsored SIGCSE affiliated event to learn about this approach. However, once these colleagues returned to their home institution, they were on their own.

Repositories for CSG-Ed materials, in particular, or for tertiary CS education, in general, is an NP-Hard problem. (An enumeration of failed repository efforts are both not germane to this proposal, and beyond this event’s scope.) Training sessions (e.g. workshops, affiliated events, special sessions at conferences) only go so far.

While designed to teach colleagues “how to fish,” anecdotal evidence suggests that colleagues rarely implement strategies/projects beyond what was provided during the workshop/session. Further- more, individuals who have expanded to activities beyond those provided at workshops and sessions tend to have one or more personal relationships to other CSG-Ed practitioners. Participants will be able to learn about the pros and cons of different approaches to mentoring. They will leave the event with ideas for implementing CSG-Ed mentoring at their institution. This free and open to all, SIGCAS-sponsored affiliated event (https://www.sigcas.org/csged/) will explore the question how can we create more opportunities for the types of personal relationship building that has been associated with increased CSG-Ed engagement and mastery. Through prepared presentations, group activities, and the sharing of proposals among the participants various mentoring models will be explored (e.g. peer-to-peer, expert to novice pairings, ongoing workshops, periodic meet ups, service-learning classes designed to teach our students how to be teachers/mentors to others[1]). Our shared intent is to learn how to support both newcomers and seasoned CSG-Ed practitioners.