Computer Science and Information Technology Newsletter October 2025

[joe jkmoch.com]

Hi, WI Computer Science and Information Technology Colleagues

Into October, 2025 we have the following features

For Wisconsin, the CSTA WI-Dairyland Summit, the CSforWI/ECEP Summit, third monthly virtual meeting set, LearningBlade software planning for 2025-26 and other items

For all readers

• Hour of AI coming with link
• AI Learning Priorities for all K-12 Students - newly released by CSTA
• AI Code and More newsletter
• Book Review of “AI with Intention”
• Five items from previous newsletters
• Updated AI Resources page
• Bebras Computational Thinking Competition
• Presidential AI Challenge
• Code/Art three annual competitions for girls
• NASA TechRise Student Challenge
• National Cyber League registrations
• Congressional App Challenge
• NCWIT C4C Newsletter with resources
• ISTE/ASCD AI Explorations course
• Reinvented - new videos for students to view and issue 19 of Revisited Magazine
• PD/Conference Opportunities:  AP Teachers Roundtable, Grace Hopper, Slate, NICE Cybersecurity
• A Guide to AI in Schools from MIT Teaching Systems Lab
• Award for Aspirations - application period open - from NCWIT
• Unplugged activities and Education Week article on Presidential AI Challenge

Here is the Oct 2025 edition of the CSTAWI Newsletter.

https://bit.ly/CSTAWI_Newsletter-Oct2025

Table of Contents: (links work in Google Doc)

• HOUR of AI - preview and link
• CS Education Highlights this Month
• CSTA WI Dairyland CS News for WI CS Educators (partial list)
• Registration OPEN→ CSTA WI Dairyland Summit Nov 11, 2025
• NEW Registration Open→ ECEP/CSforWI Summit, Nov 10, 2025
• Reminder→ 2nd Annual AP Teacher Roundtable at Oconomowoc HS
• New→ CSTA WI 2025-26 virtual event on Oct 15 6:30pm Hour of AI
• Update→ Learning Blade software - planning for 2025-26
• other useful info and links
• Computing Education Resources
• Reminder→ AI Learning Priorities for all K-12 Students
• Latest Issue→ Coding and More monthly newsletter (September)
• NEW→ Book Review of “AI with Intention”
• From previous issues
• Two Recent AI Resources - AI Guidance and AI Literacy Framework 
• Reminder→ Hello World #27 - Integrated Computer Science
• Experience CS:  A New Way to Teach CS
• CS Teaching Tips
• Reimagining CS Pathways Report (CSTA)
• Guidance on the Future of CS EDucation in an Age of AI
•  AI Resources
• Opportunities for Students
• NEW→ Bebras Computational Thinking Competition 2025-26
• NEW→ Presidential AI Challenge
• NEW→ Code/Art three annual competitions for girls and non-binary students
• From previous issues
• Reminder→ NASA TechRise Student Challenge
• Reminder→National Cyber League (cyber skyline)
• Reminder→ Congressional App Challenge for 2025
• Continuing→ Last Mile Education Fund - Community College support
• Updated→ GirlCon newsletter
• Opportunities for Educators
• NEW→ NCWIT C4C Connected Counseling Newsletter with resources (Oct 2025)
• Updated → ISTE+ASCD AI Explorations - Fall course section
• NEW→ Shaping the Future of CS: Discussion of K-12 Policy and Advocacy
• From previous issues
• Recording available→ Learner’s Apprentice: AI and Human Creativity
• Reminder→ Pathfinders Online Institute
• Updated → CSTA - Largest CS Dept in the World; latest newsletters
• Student Publication
• Updated→ Reinvented: Watt’s Up Girl video #5, Magazine Issue 19 available
• Professional Development/Conference Opportunities
• NEW - CSTA WI-Dairyland Summit
• NEW→ CSforWI/ECEP Summit
• Reminder→ AP Teachers Roundtable
• Reminder→ Grace Hopper 
• Registration open→ SLATE 2025
• Coming→ NICE K-12 Cybersecurity Conference & Expo
• new → Your homework reading assignment - Action Item

§  A Guide to AI in Schols from MIT Teaching Systems Lab

• new → NCWIT Resource

§  Re:think Issue 4 on AI and Quantum Computing

§  Aspirations in Computing Award - application period open until Oct 28, 2025

• new → Juicemind Unplugged Actiities; Education Week article on Pres AI Challenge