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C4 is breaking barriers to expand Clark\u2019s tech community<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n Members of Clark’s Competitive Computing Club (C4) work together in the MACD building. Photo by Moses Millman ’24.\n

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An online Bistro ordering system. A map of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus. A virtual lost-and-found for items forgotten. One club is behind the creation of these Clark resources.<\/p>\n

C4, also known as the Clark Competitive Computing Club<\/a>, flexes its technological prowess to help close the gap between the computer and data science fields and the rest of Clark.<\/p>\n

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C4 President Nina Carlson ’24. Photo by Moses Millman ’24.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We are trying to promote a sense of community,” says C4 President Nina Carlson ’24, a computer science<\/a> and economics<\/a> double major. “I feel like there’s a stereotype among people in tech that computer science majors don’t talk. They sit in their rooms. They code all day.<\/p>\n

“We’re trying to break that stereotype.”<\/p>\n

C4 was founded to take students to hackathons<\/a>, but its mission quickly grew into something bigger. The group focuses on community-building and unity within the computer science, data science<\/a>, and game design<\/a> majors, and ensuring these departments feel welcoming to all disciplines on campus.<\/p>\n

The organization has more than 100 members, making it one of the largest STEM clubs at Clark, and frequently hosts community engagement events and networking opportunities.<\/p>\n

Carlson and C4 Vice President Ella Grady ’24, a computer science and political science<\/a> double major, hope to encourage more women and gender non-conforming students to seek degrees in a largely male-dominated field.<\/p>\n

“One of our goals is to show people that if we look like this and we can do it, then you can do it, too,” says Carlson.<\/p>\n

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Clarkies participated in a hackathon in fall 2023. Photo by Natalie Hoang ’25.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To motivate more students to get involved with C4, the club recently partnered with Clark Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (TIE) to host a hackathon, and with All Kinds of Growth (AKOG) and the Clark University Educational Studies club (Splash!) to host workshops for children in Main South.<\/p>\n

“We want to grow the department as a whole, engage more students on campus, promote diversity within the department, and most of all,” Carlson says, “we want to be a resource to all students — computer science or not.”<\/p>\n

Carlson thinks this focus on inclusivity has helped harmonize the connection between Becker School of Design & Technology<\/a> students and other STEM majors.<\/p>\n

“I always tell people that you can learn any skill a job wants you to learn. You can learn to code. You can learn to program. What you can’t learn is how to be a person,” Carlson says. “I think one of the best things about Clark is that we have such a diverse community of people studying so many different things. I get to talk to all different types of people all day.”<\/p>\n

C4 intends to teach its members how to coexist in a rapidly changing world. One of those changes is the speedy development of artificial intelligence, or AI, technology and its impact on the job market.<\/p>\n

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C4 Vice President Ella Grady ’24. Photo by Moses Millman ’24.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Every technology was new at one point. Look at the computer itself, for example. If we didn’t integrate that, we wouldn’t have jobs,” says Grady.<\/p>\n

Carlson, who is entering the software development field next August, encourages people to learn more about AI before giving in to their fear about its potential uses.<\/p>\n

“People are a little bit concerned by it, which is fair,” she says. “We don’t know where it’s going, but I think the best way to deal with it right now is to not be afraid of it, but to embrace it and to incorporate it.”<\/p>\n

The two believe working with this technology helps prepare for a future where AI is a productivity aid rather than a source of unease. This is something Carlson experienced firsthand as a software engineering intern this past summer.<\/p>\n

“I wrote maybe half of my code by hand,” she says, “but the other half was generated for me by AI, and the company I was working for encouraged this.”<\/p>\n

For times and locations of C4 meetings, check C4’s <\/em>Instagram page.<\/em><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Major in computer science<\/a><\/p>\n

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