Partnerships

Work with students while they are still exploring what they can become.

PFW ACM is a student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. We connect students with practical computing experiences through competitions, game development, technical talks, open-source work, and interdisciplinary projects. Industry partners can contribute more than funding: expertise, mentorship, realistic problems, infrastructure, equipment, and honest conversations about the field all make the chapter stronger.

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Why industry involvement matters

Meet students before recruiting season

See how students communicate, learn, and work in teams through authentic events rather than only résumés and career-fair conversations.

Bring real context into student work

Guest talks, domain feedback, project ideas, and mentorship help students understand how classroom concepts translate into real systems and organizations.

Enable infrastructure students can actually use

Compute, cloud credits, equipment, challenge infrastructure, and software access can unlock workshops and experiments that are difficult to run on shared campus systems.

Campus support

These Purdue Fort Wayne groups provide material, financial, advising, space, or institutional support to chapter activities.

Campus support

Student Government Association

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Provides student-organization funding that has helped make large, open events such as Global Game Jam possible.

Campus support

Department of Computer Science

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Supports student computing activities through advising, event coordination, space, and program support.

Campus support

College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Provides facilities and institutional support that help students run technical events and competitions.

A partnership does not need to start with a sponsorship tier.

A useful first step can be a guest talk, a technical review of a student project, a tour, a realistic dataset or challenge, or a conversation about what your organization needs from new graduates.

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