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Employers of software engineers seek to hire who are not only excellent software developers but also possess three important skills: interpersonal communication, team collaboration, and problem solving. Mercer University’s Computer Science Department has a history of using real world problems for projects to motivate students and provides a rich environment for them to develop their problem solving and interpersonal skills. High-profile events like the Super Bowl can draw interests from students in a variety of courses. This poster will present the plan for using a project centered on Super Bowl to attract student’s interest, tailor teaching materials and hands-on exercises around this popular topic, and make appropriate assignments to students in two ongoing courses. The resultant software product can be extended in future courses to help train our students into problem solvers.

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Zhao, M.Q., Allen, R. (2023). Training Problem-Solvers by Using Real World Problems as Case Studies. In: Daimi, K., Al Sadoon, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research (ICR’23). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 721. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35308-6_36

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