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.
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
All Chapters meeting on Tuesday, 3/30/2021 from 7 PM to 8:15 PM (hosted by CSTA-SW).
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81204222579
AGENDA
Welcome Remarks
Updates around the state
Status of New Chapter
Elections
This June, President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary will be elected.
Terms start July 1, 2021
Going forward, The President and Treasurer will be elected on odd years and the VP and treasurer will be held on even years.
To streamline communication, you will need to register as a CSTANJ member. They have a membership that is free. If you are already a member, you will automatically be added as an CSTANJ member.
CSTANJ Virtual Summit hosted by Rutgers University on Friday, May 14 (https://sites.google.com/view/njcssummit/
CS4NJ Announcements, https://cs4nj.org/
CSTA National Conference (7/14 - 7/16): https://www.csteachers.org/page/csta-2021
Microbit - Demonstration,
Bill Siever and Diane Horvath, Microbit Educators.
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!
Computer Science Education
NJ well represented.
CSTANJ proud
Here is a link to Code.org's Facebook page where they are using the video made by Building CS in NJ about the summer training at TCNJ. (SEE BELOW)
Computer Science Education
District's TR:TechReady Team Presents to Computer Science Teachers Association

Advocacy Representative
Daryl Detrick, Warren Hills High School, Warren Hills, NJ
CSTANJ -ADVOCACY UPDATE