The Computer Science Teachers Association of New Jersey (CSTA-NJ) is a group of 4 chapters of the CSTA, the national organization whose purpose is to support and promote the teaching of computer science and other computing disciplines.

|CSTA-CNJ is the Central New Jersey chapter of the CSTA | CSTA-NNJ is the Northern NJ chapter of the CSTA | CSTA-SNJ is the Southern NJ chapter of the CSTA| CSTA-SWNJ is the SouthWest NJ chapter of the CSTA

The mission of these chapters is to further the mission of CSTA and to encourage sharing of ideas and activities for computer science teachers in their respective regions of New Jersey.

All Chapter Meeting Annoucement

CSTA NNJ will be hosting this month's CSTANJ virtual meeting. We will have a discussion about the newly forming CSTA-NJ, a short presentation on cseducators.stackexchange.com, and a representative from Phidgets Education.

Here is the agenda including the link. I hope you can join us!

CSTA N NJ Meeting

January 26, 7pm - 8:15 pm

  • Welcome Remarks

  • Overview of plans to run CSTA chapters in NJ

  • Bylaw Committee reports back

  • A short introduction to cseducators.stackexchange.com

  • Lucas Pacentrilli to present about Phidgets Education (www.phidgets.com/education)

Join us on Zoom:

https://bergen.zoom.us/j/6428429920?pwd=RUhtQ3ZoRERNWHZpWGdFUm1jd3dtZz09


Advocacy Update from Daryl Detrick

Governor Murphy signed the 2021 budget today which included $800,000 for CS Education and included the following wording. We are hopeful that this will help ensure that the funding will be used primarily for professional development opportunities as we prepare for the CS Standards to be implemented by September 2022.

The amount hereinabove appropriated for the K-12 Computer Science Education Initiative shall be used exclusively to support approved applications for the expansion and support of professional development of K-12 computer science teachers, and for advanced computer science course offerings as determined by the Commissioner of Education based on a district’s demonstration of its readiness to implement such a program, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting.


Competitions

We would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 competition, hosted by Stockton University.

The Winning Teams of the 2019 Programming Competition:

1st Place-Freehold High School -Team Scorpion

Max Breslauer-Friedman ~ Cacey Ostic ~ Adam Goldstein

2nd Place-Freehold High School -Team Viper

Drew Isaacson ~Xun Xu

3rd Place-Freehold High School -Team Alligator

Connor Lum ~ Noah Lee ~ Harry Allex

Honorable Mention:

Toms River North High School ~ James Caldwell High School

Thank you to all our volunteers and sponsors!


Advocacy Representative

Daryl Detrick, Warren Hills High School, Warren Hills, NJ

CSTANJ -ADVOCACY UPDATE


CS4NJ maintains and coordinates a comprehensive list of professional development opportunities and programs for educators and students of New Jersey and surrounding areas. More information can be found here. CS4nj.org