ACM Student Chapter is the international Association for Computing Machinery's student society which provides opportunities to students for networking, learn together and share their knowledge. [1] [2] Its main focus is on building and developing members' passion for computer science.
The first student chapter was founded in 1961 [3] at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. ACM is currently organized into over hundreds of local chapters over 800 colleges and universities throughout the world. [4]
The members of chapters are eligible for various benefits such as coding competitions, technical talks and mentoring sessions by experienced professionals. [5] [6]