Events

Join us on Wednesday, January 26, 2021 at 6:00 - 7:00 PM CT to learn ways on how to celebrate Black excellence in Computer Science during Black History Month and beyond. The presentation features members from CSTA'S Black Affinity Group who will highlight Black pioneers in CS and provide ideas on how to inspire Black students to engage in culturally relevant CS education.

Bring your lesson ideas for debugging, code walk throughs, and style guides. We will discuss how to grade programs for style and how to write assessment questions for debugging.

Join us on Wednesday, January 26, 2021 at 6:00 - 7:00 PM CT to learn ways on how to celebrate Black excellence in Computer Science during Black History Month and beyond. The presentation features members from CSTA'S Black Affinity Group who will highlight Black pioneers in CS and provide ideas on how to inspire Black students to engage in culturally relevant CS education.

Join us on January 26th at 7:30 PM to discover more about Phidgets!! Lucas from Phidgets Education will be livestreaming to help us learn more about what we can do with Phidgets in the classroom. In preparation, go to: https://www.phidgets.com/education/free and use CSTASUS to order your FREE Phidgets (with a bonus censor) to prior to this event! Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94562058039

The Chapter Leadership Summit is CSTA's premier leadership event, geared towards helping Chapter Leaders network with one another and to provide a means by which to bring engaging, meaningful professional development and support back to local chapter membership.

Monthly community call to update CS Educator community on opportunities & events in Arizona. If you would like to reserve time during these community calls to share an opportunity with the Arizona CS community, please contact cstarizona@gmail.com. Agenda & Call-In information below.

This workshop will familiarize participants with the CSTA Standards for CS Teachers and help them set set goals based on those standards to improve their practice.

Please join us for our CSTA Engage Meetup on Thursday, February 3, 2021, from 3 - 4 p.m. CT to connect with and learn alongside other K-12 CS teachers. We’ll host a jam-packed hour, worth every minute of your midweek evening. Activities will include a time specifically for networking, a featured PD activity, and unconference/birds-of-a-feather sessions.

Please join us for our CSTA Engage Meetup on Thursday, February 3, 2021, from 3 - 4 p.m. CT to connect with and learn alongside other K-12 CS teachers. We’ll host a jam-packed hour, worth every minute of your midweek evening. Activities will include a time specifically for networking, a featured PD activity, and unconference/birds-of-a-feather sessions.

We are excited to see all of our CSTA friends for our February meetup. Register for this event using the link to the right. We can't wait to share CS Education ideas and experiences with you. We invite you to join us for one of two discussions at this meet up. Our high school members will continue their discusson on data structures. The middle and elementary school members will focus on the Computational Thinking strand algorithms. Got ideas? Let's share them.

Special guest speaker, NJ Rivilis, will share ways to make CS accessible for all students.

Interested in hosting a Hackathon at your school? Join us for help with the logistics, resources, themes, programming tools, teaching and learning goals, resources, and more needed to run an event with your students. This virtual workshop is a follow up to the December 12th Teacher Hackathon, although attendance at the earlier event is not required to participate in this session.

The 2022 Hawaii Computer Science (CS) Professional Development (PD) Pre-Summit is the annual PD event for all Hawaii education-related professionals including but not limited to teachers, counselors, administrators, industry professionals and community partners who teach and/or support CS education. The virtual Pre-Summit event will provide an overview of the state of CS along with a preview of the upcoming CS learning resources and professional development opportunities.

Our five Texas CSTA chapters are collaborating this year to offer the Texas CSTA Chapters Virtual Conference 2022 on Saturday, February 5, 2022 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. central time  The theme this year will be Building Equitable and Inclusive CS Teachers and Learners in Texas.  

Interested in hosting a Hackathon at your school? Join us for help with the logistics, resources, themes, programming tools, teaching and learning goals, resources, and more needed to run an event with your students. This virtual workshop is a follow up to the December 12th Teacher Hackathon, although attendance at the earlier event is not required to participate in this session.

The Connecticut Computer Science Teacher's Association February meeting will be held VIRTUALLY on February 7th, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm.  As usual we'll be networking, sharing best-practices, being briefed on the latest in CT CS, and learning a thing or two about friendship along the way.

Come learn and share your favorite strategies for supporting all students. Let’s vent and collaborate on what is and isn’t working for us! Black History Month is a great opportunity for highlighting anti-racism for students, and hopefully we’re bringing that content to the rest of the year too!

Join the CSTA Black Affinity Group for it's inaugural meetup for CS Educators to celebrate Black Excellence in Computer Science! Join us for fun, a little entertainment and networking!

An informal virtual get together. Our topic this month is Building Community. Encourage a colleague to register with you! Zoom links will be sent the day before the meeting to all registered participants.

The Intro workshop is designed for elementary educators new to teaching computer science who want to explore how to begin teaching the CS Fundamentals curriculum. Join your peers and experienced facilitators to get a hands-on introduction to computer science, pedagogy, overviews of the online curriculum, and teacher dashboard, as well as strategies for teaching “unplugged” classroom activities. For more information or to host a workshop at your school or district please contact cs@azscience.org.

Computer science can ENHANCE learning of all subject areas. At the CS Across the Curriculum Summit, teachers will explore ways to integrate computer science into all subjects and grade levels. Computer science can ENHANCE learning of all subject areas. At the CS Across the Curriculum Summit, teachers will explore ways to integrate computer science into all subjects and grade levels.

Computer science can ENHANCE learning of all subject areas. At the CS Across the Curriculum Summit, teachers will explore ways to integrate computer science into all subjects and grade levels. *times subject to change

Interested in hosting a Hackathon at your school? Join us for help with the logistics, resources, themes, programming tools, teaching and learning goals, resources, and more needed to run an event with your students. This virtual workshop is a follow up to the December 12th Teacher Hackathon, although attendance at the earlier event is not required to participate in this session.

Join CSTA Iowa for our February Virtual Chapter Meeting. We'll use Zoom to connect and participants will choose a breakout room to learn more about a variety of instructional tools for CS classrooms.

Join us on Wednesday, February 23, 2021 at 6:00 - 7:00 PM CT to discover ways that you and your students can empower sisterhood in Computer Science by celebrating the past contributions of women and highlighting current female leaders in the tech industry.

Join us on Wednesday, February 23, 2021 at 6:00 - 7:00 PM CT to discover ways that you and your students can empower sisterhood in Computer Science by celebrating the past contributions of women and highlighting current female leaders in the tech industry.

Roundtable discussion of local PD needs and information on PA CS Teacher Certification

CyberPatriot and CyberSecurity: CyberPatriot is a national youth cyber education program created in the United States to help direct students toward careers in cybersecurity or other computer, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Come learn how to bring this exciting program to your school. This will also be a time to share ideas about teaching CyberSecurity.

Our very own chapter member, Bryan Hower, will be sharing his experiences with working with the Kapor Center's equity fellowship. Come learn from Bryan and take some new ideas to your classroom!

Monthly community call to update CS Educator community on opportunities & events in Arizona. If you would like to reserve time during these community calls to share an opportunity with the Arizona CS community, please contact cstarizona@gmail.com. Agenda & Call-In information below.

We are excited to see all of our CSTA friends for our March meetup. Register for this event using the link to the right. We can't wait to share CS Education ideas and experiences with you. We invite you to join us for one of two discussions at this meet up. Our high school members will discuss recursion. The middle and elementary school members will focus on the Computational Thinking strand programming and development. Got ideas? Let's share them.

Save the date for the first annual Midwest is Best CSEd Unconference! Join CS Educators from across the Midwest for a virtual, informal day of connectiong and learning from fellow CS educators in our region.

Come join this limited opportunity to become a Connecticut certified Initial Support Teacher Mentor in a unique cohort of Computer Science teachers!

Scratch Educator Meetups are peer-designed professional learning experiences inspired by the Edcamp model. This means that you decide what your learning looks like on any given Meetup day! At a ScratchEd Meetup, you can share, create, and learn with other educators who are also passionate about emphasizing creativity, play, and computational literacy through teaching with Scratch. Note: this event was originally scheduled for February 10th but will now take place on March 10th.

An informal virtual get together. Our topic this month is joining research teams for support and inspiration. Zero Studio, a repository of resources and lesson plans. And Bridges, a platform to engage with real-world data. These research teams are looking for input from students and teachers. Encourage a colleague to register with you! Zoom links will be sent the day before the meeting to all registered participants.

Join us on Monday, March 14, 2021 at 6:00 - 7:00 PM CT to discuss the purpose of assessment, identify the criteria for developing equitable assessment methods, analyze traditional assessment methods of multiple choice and free-response coding questions for bias and inequities, and explore assessment methodologies that support the progress of all students.

Join us on Monday, March 14, 2021 at 6:00 - 7:00 PM CT to discuss the purpose of assessment, identify the criteria for developing equitable assessment methods, analyze traditional assessment methods of multiple choice and free-response coding questions for bias and inequities, and explore assessment methodologies that support the progress of all students.

The Intro workshop is designed for elementary educators new to teaching computer science who want to explore how to begin teaching the CS Fundamentals curriculum. Join your peers and experienced facilitators to get a hands-on introduction to computer science, pedagogy, overviews of the online curriculum, and teacher dashboard, as well as strategies for teaching “unplugged” classroom activities. For more information or to host a workshop at your school or district please contact cs@azscience.org.

Come and connect with CS teachers all over PA! During this unconference, you will be asked to provide topics you want to explore more with your peers. In doing so, we will then create break out Zoom rooms to foster a space for resource sharing and collaboration. More info to come, for now please save the date! This will be a free event and Act 48 hours can be given. You do not need to register with our EventBrite service. PaTTAN will be providing their own registration soon.

Roundtable discussion of local PD needs and information on PA CS Teacher Certification

Holyoke Codes would like to invite CSTA teachers to come try out GaleForce, a virtual robotics and coding game where students (grades 3-10) are asked to join the GaleForce Robotics Disaster Relief Team to help San Juan, Puerto Rico to prepare and recover from a hurricane. Students work with a fleet of virtual robots and drones in remote-controlled or block-based coding missions such as evacuation, delivery of supplies, clearing debris from roads, or rescuing lost pets. Teachers will be able to try the game and access lesson plans to use it in their classrooms. The game requires installing on Windows or Mac computers with internet access and firewall permissions (it will not work on Chromebooks or tablets). This workshop will be hybrid with Zoom or in-person attendance at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke if possible.

Join us on Thursday, March 31, 2021, from 5:30-7 p.m. CT for a CS House Party where you'll have an opportunity to select from different themes to Code 'N Play with your colleagues. This will be a great way to take a break and have fun coding and building community!

Save the date for the Virtual Equity Summit!

The Connecticut Computer Science Teacher's Association April meeting will be held Live and IN-Person on April 4th, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm at Makerspace CT.  As usual we'll be networking, sharing best-practices, being briefed on the latest in CT CS, and learning a thing or two about friendship along the way.

Monthly community call to update CS Educator community on opportunities & events in Arizona. If you would like to reserve time during these community calls to share an opportunity with the Arizona CS community, please contact cstarizona@gmail.com. Agenda & Call-In information below.

We are excited to see all of our CSTA friends for our April meetup. Register for this event using the link to the right. We can't wait to share CS Education ideas and experiences with you. We invite you to join us for some discussion about data. We will break into groups to focus on grade level approaches and practices around data. Got ideas? Let's share them.

The Intro workshop is designed for elementary educators new to teaching computer science who want to explore how to begin teaching the CS Fundamentals curriculum. Join your peers and experienced facilitators to get a hands-on introduction to computer science, pedagogy, overviews of the online curriculum, and teacher dashboard, as well as strategies for teaching “unplugged” classroom activities. For more information or to host a workshop at your school or district please contact cs@azscience.org.

Challenge your students to apply computational thinking to real-world problems by hosting a data jam! A data jam is a competition and/or exhibition in which students analyze data sets generated by scientists and share their results in creative ways. Project examples include songs, physical models, poetry, graphs, animations, photographs, etc. In this virtual “how to” workshop we will share model lessons for teaching students to analyze and visualize data, and then walk you through what the competition/exhibition looks like at the upper elementary, middle or high school level. We will close with ideas on where to find relevant data sets.

Join CSTA Iowa for our April Virtual Chapter Meeting. We'll use Zoom to connect and to hear from a panel of educators using a Standards Audit tool to help their districts begin implementing CS in grades K through 12.

Coding clubs for all ages: Are you interested in creating more out of school opportunities for your students to code? Join WI CSTA members to learn about coding clubs in WI.

Roundtable discussion of local PD needs and information on PA CS Teacher Certification

Monthly community call to update CS Educator community on opportunities & events in Arizona. If you would like to reserve time during these community calls to share an opportunity with the Arizona CS community, please contact cstarizona@gmail.com. Agenda & Call-In information below.

It's Cinco de Mayo! We hope to see our CSTA friends tonight to celebrate CS Education! Register for this event using the link to the right. We can't wait to see. We invite you to join us for some discussion about modeling and simulation. We will break into groups to focus on grade level approaches and practices around modeling and simulation in the classroom. Got ideas? Let's share them.

The Connecticut Computer Science Teacher's Association May meeting will be held VIRTUALLY on May 9th, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm.  As usual we'll be networking, sharing best-practices, being briefed on the latest in CT CS, and learning a thing or two about friendship along the way. We will also be discussing elections for the 2022-2023 CT Board!

Although many think of computer science as programming, the heart of computer science is developing effective and efficient algorithms to solve real world problems even before they are programmed on a computer. In this fun, hands-on (face-to-face) Saturday outdoor session, we will explore rich computer science problems and how they can be adapted to K-12 students. One example will be graph coloring, also known as the 4 color map theorem. The question is how many colors are needed to color in any arbitrary map (using the minimal amount of colors) such that no 2 adjacent "countries" that share a border are the same color. Participants will experience and receive a lesson plan developed by John Heffernan, an K-12 educator and former software engineer that he developed for his K-12 students. Other examples will also be provided.

Roundtable discussion of local PD needs and information on PA CS Teacher Certification

Monthly community call to update CS Educator community on opportunities & events in Arizona. If you would like to reserve time during these community calls to share an opportunity with the Arizona CS community, please contact cstarizona@gmail.com. Agenda & Call-In information below.

The Intro workshop is designed for elementary educators new to teaching computer science who want to explore how to begin teaching the CS Fundamentals curriculum. Join your peers and experienced facilitators to get a hands-on introduction to computer science, pedagogy, overviews of the online curriculum, and teacher dashboard, as well as strategies for teaching “unplugged” classroom activities. For more information or to host a workshop at your school or district please contact cs@azscience.org.

CSForAll: Adapt, Implement, and Research at Nebraska (AIR@NE), an NSF-funded grant that examines the adaptation and implementation of a validated K-8 Computer Science curriculum in diverse school districts. Applications are opening soon!

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Attend the National Conference, Earn Credit - Register and attend the 2022 CSTA annual conference in Chicago, IL July 13th = 17th and submit coursework before July 31st, 2022 to earn one license renewal credit

Monthly community call to update CS Educator community on opportunities & events in Arizona. If you would like to reserve time during these community calls to share an opportunity with the Arizona CS community, please contact cstarizona@gmail.com. Agenda & Call-In information below.

CSTA 2022 Annual Conference As a computer science teacher, you are often the only one in your building, or maybe even in your district. There is a whole community of computer science educators just like you out there. Connect with them at the CSTA 2022 Annual Conference set for July 14-17, 2022, in Chicago! McCormick Place West | Hyatt Regency McCormick Place July 14, 2022—July 17, 2022