About SCCS
We're the Swarthmore College Computer Society, or SCCS for short: a student-run group offering computing services, tools, toys, and information to the Swarthmore College community. Our goal is not to mirror ITS, but to complement and supplement widely available services by providing resources that would otherwise be out of the reach of individuals. For our part, SCCS Staff learn extremely practical system administration and software development skills—the stuff you can't learn in a CS lecture.
Our Services
- The Cygnet: The Swarthmore College student directory
- The RSD: A daily email with news, events, jobs, and more
- Course Planner: Plan your schedule for next semester
- Mailing Lists: Distribute emails to clubs and student groups
- GPA Calculator: Quickly calculate your Swarthmore GPA
- SCCS Sites: Create sites with Wordpress
- Minecraft: The Swarthmore College Minecraft server
- Advanced: Some more goodies for the tech-savvy
Who We Are
SCCS is run entirely by student volunteers. We're not affiliated with Swarthmore ITS nor the Computer Science department (although our staff are sometimes CS majors, for obvious reasons). We accept new members in the first few weeks of each semester.
Executive Board
- President: Damian René '27
- VP, Software Engineering: Nick Fettig '26
- VP, Infrastructure: Leo Douhovnikoff '25
- VP, Public Relations: Ava Babcock '27
Project Leads
AirPool
- Leo Douhovnikoff '25
Course Planner
- Damian Rene '27
SwatGPT
- Amirkhan Aidarkhan '29
Club Dashboard
- Ava Babcock '27
Mailing List V2.0
- Nick Fettig '26
Staff
- Ahmad Fayyaz '27
- Aryaman Iyer '28
- Uneeb Hyder '28
- Logan Lim '28
- Huy Nguyen '28
- Wendy Abstone '29
- Phillip Dinh '26
- Esmaeil Alhaj Mostafa Abdan '28
- Luna Workman '29
- Ethan Pang '27
- Oscar Dalton '29
- Tianzuo Li '27
- Nathan Brewer '28
- Carly Murphy '27
- Marlea Martens '26
- Aidan Corpus '26
- Finn McKibbin '27
- Derrick Nyaga '27
- Samchan Lee '28
- Violet Garibaldi '28
- Amirkhan Aidarkhan '29
Statement on Application Strategy
SCCS has a semesterly application cycle. We interview, select, and purge staff members based purely on experience, interest, activity, and occasionally interpersonal relationships. We include the following statement on our application form describing this policy:
SCCS does not discriminate based on any attributes, protected or otherwise, with the only exceptions being CS skill/knowledge and interpersonal conflicts. However, we recognize that studies show some protected groups are disproportionately unlikely to complete applications if they feel they may not be qualified. We would like to emphasize: You lose nothing by applying. Worst-case scenario, you can reapply next semester, and we give application priority to reapplicants. We've admitted people who got every coding question wrong and people who had to reapply multiple times, and often these are some of our most active members. We want you to apply, even if you are afraid you don't have the experience.
Our one hard requirement is you must have taken, be enrolled in, or have equivalent experience to a 30-level CS course. This is purely to ensure you've worked with at least one "curly brace" language (i.e. C, Java, JS, etc., NOT Python) so we don't have to start from scratch teaching for our work in JavaScript. We do "hiring" cycles semesterly so if you got lotteried out or otherwise need more experience, it won't be long before you can apply again.