The purpose behind these activities are to encourage students to learn via experience. For students already involved in volunteer activities, you can count those as credit. Note that only work done during this semester, can be counted. Also note that activities like Service Learning can provide valuable experience that you can put on your resume. For those of you who want to improve your experience base to be more marketable upon graduation, we recommend that you focus on activities like Service Learning and other types of service-oriented volunteering. For those of you who want to go to graduate school, involvement in research like VTURCS is very important, so you can focus your participation activities in that direction.
| Activity | Documentation | Value |
| Service Learning Full Project | Short write-up on what you did and learned | 100% |
| CS2 Project (at least 15 hours) | Short write-up on what you did and learned | 100% |
| Job Fair | 25% (max 50%) | |
| GRE | Something confirming you took it | 25% |
| Other Volunteering (must be approved first) | Short write-up on what you did and learned | 25% for each 4 hrs |
| VTURCS | Email from grad student/ professor you did research with | 25% for each 4 hrs |
| CS Career Nite Reception | Sign in on sign up sheet | 25% |
| CS Reception Executive Committee (planning) | Email from Netta Benton | 100% |
| Attending CS Department graduate seminars, usually held in McBryde 655 | Short write-up on what topic of presentation | 10% |
| Writing about course topics. This choice is designed mainly for students who need to make up some percentage of the total participation credit that they didn't get via other opportunities |
10% per one-page paper, no limit on total
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