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Crystal Combs

Crystal Combs

Email

Office

2280 Colden Hall

Phone

660.562.0804

Joined Northwest in 2020


Instructor


Education

  • M.S.Ed. Teaching: Instructional Technology, Northwest Missouri State University, 2011
  • B.S.Ed. Business Education; Northwest Missouri State University, 2007

Courses Taught

  • 44-130 Computers and Information Technology
  • 44-141 Computer Programming I
  • 44-343 Digital Technologies
  • 44-410 Coordination of Cooperative Education
  • 44-480 Methods of Teaching Business and Marketing

Academic Interests

  • New Instructional Technology
  • Business Education
  • Computer Science Education

Scholarly Activity

Honors:

  • Nominated for NWMSU Student Senate Tower Service Award 2025
  • Nominated for NWMSU Student Human Resources - Student Impact Award 2025
  • Nominated for National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) Of the Month (OTM) Award 2024
  • Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education (MOACTE) Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year Award 2024
  • Nominated for NWMSU Student Senate Tower Service Award 2024
  • Missouri Business Education Association (MBEA) Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year Award 2023

Selected Publications:

Selected Presentations:

  • Linville, D. & Combs, C. (2023). Empowering Novice Coders: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Tools in an Introductory Computer Programming Course. Presented at the ISCAP 2023 conference, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Cline, C. & Combs, C. (2023). Microsoft Teams: Collaboration Beyond the LMS. Presented at National Business Education Association/BERC Conference, Kansas City, MO.

Student Group Advisement

  • Beta Chapter, Pi Omega Pi – Business Education National Honor Society, Co-Sponsor

Other Professional Experiences

  • NWMSU Cyberpalooza Planning Committee – 2024, 2025
  • NWMSU Most Awesome Northwest-KC Programming Contest Committee – 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Computer Science Taskforce – 2023, 2024
  • Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas Women in Computing Conference (MINK WIC) Conference - 2023
  • Information Systems & Computing Academic Professionals (ISCAP) Conference – 2023
  • Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education (MOACTE) Summer Conference 2014-2020, 2023, 2024
  • Northwest Missouri Business Education Association Executive Team 2020 – Present
  • National Business Education Association (NBEA) Member 2007- Present