Computer Science and Information Technology Newsletter January 2026

[joe jkmoch.com]

Hi, WI Computer Science and Information Technology Colleagues

Into January, 2026 we have the following features

For Wisconsin, our fifth monthly virtual meeting and other items

For all readers

• Learn.Java website, resources, webinars
• AI Code and More latest newsletter
• Hello World #28 - Programming
• Experience CS (replacement for Google CS First)
• Eight items from previous newsletters
• AI Resources page
• Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship
• Presidential AI Challenge
• Code/Art three annual competitions for girls
• Technovation Girls Competition
• Connecting Effective Teaching Practices and AI Education Webinar
• Reinvented - new video #8 for students and teachers to view and issue 19 of Reinvented Magazine
• PD/Conference Opportunities:  SIGCSE 2026, NICE Cybersecurity, CSTA Summit and more
• Readings:  Year in CS from Quanta magazine
• NCWIT — AI Detectives experiences for students and CS+X information
• Hello World CS free CS projects

Here is the Jan 2026 edition of the CSTAWI Newsletter.

https://bit.ly/CSTAWI_Newsletter-Jan2026

Table of Contents: (links work in Google Doc)

• CS Ed Week including HOUR of AI - preview and link
• CS Education Highlights this Month
• CSTA WI Dairyland CS News for WI CS Educators (partial list)
• NEW→ Learning Blade Corner and 2025 CS Ed Week activity plan
• Updated → CSTA WI-Dairyland monthly video meetings
• other useful info and links
• Computing Education Resources
• Latest Issue→ Coding and More monthly newsletter 
• New→ Hello World #28 - Programming
• Reminder→ Technovation - AI in Action Curriculum
• Updated→ Experience CS:  A New Way to Teach CS
• From previous issues
• Reminder→ Book Review of “AI with Intention”
• Three recent AI resources→ AI Learning Priorities for all K-12 Students, AI Guidance and AI Literacy Framework 
• 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→ Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and Internship
• Register soon!→ ACSL - American Computer Science League Registration Open
• Reminder→ Presidential AI Challenge
• Reminder→ Code/Art three annual competitions for girls and non-binary students
• New→ Technovation Girls Competition
• From previous issues
• Continuing→ Last Mile Education Fund - Community College support
• Updated→ GirlCon newsletter
• Opportunities for Educators
• NEW→ Connecting Effective Teaching Practices and AI Education (in Jan 2026)
• 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
• New video→ Reinvented: Watt’s Up Girl video #7, Magazine Issue 19 available
• Professional Development/Conference Opportunities
• Registration open→ SLATE 2025
• New→ SIGCSE TS 2026
• Coming→ NICE K-12 Cybersecurity Conference & Expo
• New→ Coming Spring ‘26 and Summer ‘26
• new → Your homework reading assignment - Action Item

§  AI to create Lessons; 5 Ways to build Critical Literacy in the Age of AI

• new → NCWIT Resource

§  Counselors for Computing - Connected Counseling Newsletter for Dec 2025

§  Counselors for Computing (C4C) Resource booklet

• new → Plan for a “what will this code do” programming class exercise