This event is **FREE** and open to anyone interested in tech in San Antonio!

**AGENDA**
6:00 - Meet and greet
6:30 - ACM SA Announcements
6:35 - Meeting
7:30 - Q&A + Networking

**MEETING**
Three.js is one of the most exciting tools in modern web development — unlocking the ability to build interactive 3D experiences right inside your browser.

Join us for a hands-on introduction to Three.js with **Gene Tigner** and **Sam Carey**, who will break down the fundamentals of 3D rendering, lighting, and motion — and show how developers are using it to create stunning, immersive web environments. Whether you're a front-end engineer, designer, or just curious about the creative side of the web, this session will open your eyes to what’s possible.

💡 **What you’ll learn:**

* How Three.js fits into modern web projects
* Building your first 3D scene using React and Three.js
* Tips for performance, animation, and interactivity
* Inspiring examples from the community

**Our Speakers**
Sam Carey & Gene Tigner

**HYBRID**
Not able to make the meeting? Check out the showing live on our YouTube channel!

**LOCATION**
We will be hosting in the **San Pedro 1, NSCC Partners Room (440)**!

**PARTNERSHIP**
We are proud to be partnering with **AI Cowboys**! Check out more about them here [https://www.theaicowboys.com/](https://www.theaicowboys.com/)

**SOCIAL**
Join us over on the **DevSA** Discord: [https://discord.gg/jg6E55rwQa](https://discord.gg/jg6E55rwQa)

**RSVP now!**

ACM San Antonio

Zaquariah Holland

Devraj

Andrew Conklin

Tish L Wood

Tarun Gaur

Jaime Anton

Three.JS: 3D on the Web

San Pedro 1

Please join us for the Orange County ACM Chapter's bi-monthly evening program series.

**Games as Social Platforms**

**Agenda**
6:30 PM Doors Open & Networking
7:00 PM Announcements, Presentation, and Q&A
8:30 PM Meeting Adjourned

**Event Details**
Over the past twenty years, public perception of videogames has evolved from guilty pleasure to serious platform for learning, social connection, and behavioral change. At the same time, the global contexts in which games are deployed have grown increasingly urgent and complex.

In this talk, I’ll trace that evolution through examples from my own work: from early studies of the intellectual impact of commercial games “in the wild” and the design of after-school game-based programs for youth, to later investigations into how online play can sometimes normalize toxic behaviors, hate, and extremism. That trajectory ultimately led me to reexamine the social dimensions of games in an unexpected setting—one inside San Quentin prison.

Here, I describe my most recent collaboration with incarcerated individuals and correctional staff to understand how a game-based program there, in stark contrast to much commercial online play, has become a space for fostering connection, building emotional regulation, and reducing racial self-segregation. I close with a broader challenge to the audience: To reconsider today’s political divide as much a matter of belonging and not belief, to refocus our attention not on the relational over the ideational.

**Speaker**
**Constance Steinkuehler** is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine where she researches cognition, culture, and learning in the context of multiplayer videogames. She is the Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Center at UCI where she teaches courses on games and society, games as social platforms, the sociology of games (in Donovan Correction Facility), research methods, and visual design. Recent projects include investigations of toxicity and extremism in online commercial games and the design, development and evaluation of game-based programs in incarcerated settings to foster inclusion, equanimity, and social connectedness.

Constance formerly served as Senior Policy Analyst under the Obama administration in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on videogames and digital media. She is the founder of the Federal Games Guild, a working group across federal agencies using games and simulations as tools for thought, and the Higher Education Video Games Alliance, an academic non-for-profit organization of game-related programs in higher education. Her research has been funded by the Anti-Defamation League, the Samueli Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Universities of Cambridge, Wisconsin-Madison, and California-Irvine. She has published over one hundred articles and book chapters including six conference proceedings, four special journal issues, and two books. She has worked closely with the National Research Council and National Academy of Education on special reports relate to videogames, and her work has been featured in *Science*, *Wired*, *USA Today*, *New York Times*, *LA Times*, *ABC, CBS, CNN NPR, BBC* and *The Chronicle of Higher Education*.

Constance has a PhD in Literacy Studies, an MS in Educational Psychology, and three Bachelor’s Degrees in Mathematics, English, and Religious Studies. Her dissertation was a cognitive ethnography of the MMOs *Lineage I* and *II* where she ran a large siege guild. Her husband Dr. Kurt Squire is Co-Director of the GLS center at UCI. They live with their two adolescent gamers in Southern California where they enjoy surfing, hiking, camping, travel, and all manner of headset-wearing, dps-flinging, computer-screened mayhem.

**Co-sponsors**
This event is co-sponsored by the IEEE Orange County Computer Society, SIGAI OC, and the IEEE OC Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS).

**Venue & Parking**
This meeting will be held at the Knobbe Martens' Irvine offices. Parking validation will be provided to attendees.

Orange County ACM Chapter

Jared Miller

Allen Takatsuka

Daniel Whelan

Marc

Paul

Aryan

Brian Lau

Nick

Russ Walker

Nareg (Nick) Karaguezian

David Wei

Angela

Mike D

Karen

Games as Social Platforms

Knobbe Martens

**Agenda:** Join other programmers in the Hudson Valley for a leisurely dinner and informal networking. Recent attendees are of wide-ranging experience, from beginning programmers looking for advice, to veteran programmers, to tech-startup entrepreneurs, to retired senior programmers. Recent attendees have wide-ranging interests, from HTML/CSS/javascript and Excel macros to advanced search algorithms and hard-core object-oriented C++. Discussions have included the merits of various software development methodologies and languages, to the latest security scandal. A running joke is that no meetup is complete until someone mentions the blockchain. We are always interested to hear about your problems, your passions, your projects, and your puzzles.

Don't want dinner? Just order a cup of coffee, or even just a glass of water.

**RSVP:** Our meetings tend to be small. Prospective attendees are encouraged to register in advance at MeetUp.com. That way, we can arrange for everyone to be seated comfortably.

**Normal Schedule:** The last Tuesday of every month.

ACM Poughkeepsie

Bob Cotton

Bill Rubin

Networking Over Dinner

Palace Diner

I decided to re-read the The Art of Computer Programming and decided it would be more fun if I did it in a group. This will be a hybrid event as I know some people in places far away have expressed an interest in participating.

We will be breaking this book down into tiny pieces, it is very dense, but I found it very enjoyable to really understand the science in Computer Science. Periodically there will be special guests to help with some of the math or provide context about how a section has effected them in practice.

Please invite anyone that has expressed an interest in this tomb of knowledge, it will be fun for everyone.

ACM Kansas City

Austin Morgan

Cristy Schneider

Book Club - The Art of Computer Programming

Johnson County Library - Lenexa City Center

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