CSTA Dallas Fort Worth

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Connect with your local community of computer science teachers here in Dallas Fort Worth! Our chapter creates connections, provides professional development, and connects local teacher voices to the national computer science education community. 

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Your local CS Community

Leonardo Painevilo, President
Parul Dumka, Vice President
Sylvia Bavarian, Secretary
Robin Bailey, Treasurer
Javier Aguilar, Communications
Dan Blier, Past-President 

To learn more about your local leadership and how you can become involved, click our About Us Page. 

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Our next chapter meeting is scheduled for: Welcome to Spring 2026 Battle of the Brains Coding Contest!
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2026     
Time: 1:00pm - 2:30 pm
Location: UTD ECSS building: 838 Franklyn Jenifer Dr. Richardson, TX 75080
Notes: Parking Permit - Use PS4 garage or Lot I or H adjacent to PS4. Lot J is closed for another event. Update: Parking will NOT be enforced this weekend.
Best regards,
Dfwcsta team

Thanks to funding from UT Austin’s WeTeach_CS, BootUp PD is hosting two fully funded 4-day workshops (July 27–30) in the Fort Worth area:

• Tiny Coders. Big Thinking. (K–2 | ScratchJr + Robotical Cogs)
• Create, Code & Connect. (Elementary | Scratch + micro:bit)

Teachers receive a stipend ($500) and classroom devices — so this is real support, not just another PD flyer.

Two workshop options are available:

🔹 Tiny Coders. Big Thinking.

ScratchJr + Robotical Cogs for K–2 Classrooms
Designed for K–2 educators, this immersive workshop introduces coding through storytelling, art, music, games, and play-based learning. No prior coding experience required. Teachers build foundational computational thinking skills using ScratchJr and Robotical Cogs.

🎁 Includes $500 stipend + 30 Cogs classroom devices

🔗 Register here

🔹 Create, Code & Connect

Scratch + micro: bit for Elementary Classrooms - grades 3-8
This 28-hour experience helps elementary educators integrate Scratch and micro: bits into real classroom instruction through creativity, problem-solving, and student-driven projects. Teachers leave confident and ready to implement immediately.

🎁 Includes $500 stipend + 30 classroom micro: bit devices

🔗 Register here

This WeTeach_CS-funded opportunity is designed to expand access to high-quality K–8 computer science across Texas. Space is limited.

Bring coding to your classroom — and get the support, tools, and compensation you deserve.

Workshop in Texas this spring! opportunity 

This spring, I’m running (Linda from Hello Ruby) a workshop for twenty Texas K–8 teachers called Playful Computing.
 
Six Fridays on Zoom, May through July. It’s the workshop I’ve wanted to build for a long time, everything I’ve learned about teaching computational thinking over the past decade, distilled into something a classroom teacher can actually use on Monday morning. 
 
 
It’s funded through WeTeach_CS at UT Austin, which means it’s completely free for participants. Every teacher gets a physical kit shipped to their door—three Hello Ruby books, a reflection journal, a student workbook, Play-Doh, sidewalk chalk, stickers, and a classroom poster. They also earn 30 hours of PD credit and a $350 stipend on completion. 
 
 This workshop is especially for K–5 generalists who’ve been told they need to teach computer science and have no idea where to start. But it’s also for 6–8 STEM specialists, librarians, media specialists, instructional coaches, and ESC staff. No CS experience required. The cohort is mixed on purpose, so we'll have kindergarten teachers sit alongside middle school specialists and district coordinators.
 
If you’re an educator anywhere in the US, you might know a Texas teacher. Or you’re in a Facebook group or Slack channel with one. If you could share the application link (or even just forward this email) that’s the single most helpful thing you could do. The best PD recommendations come from a person, not an algorithm.
 
Here in short:
 
Playful Computing: Teaching Algorithms through Story and Imagination
 
6 Fridays, 9 AM–2 PM CT  ·  May 8 – July 10, 2026
Live on Zoom + mailed kit
For Texas K–8 educators  ·  No CS experience needed
Free  ·  $350 stipend  ·  30 PD hours from UT Austin · Sub coverage reimbursement available
Apply by April 8: helloruby.com/texas. Applications are open until April 9th. 
Thank you for being here!
 
Linda
 
P.S. If you’re not in Texas but wish there were something like this near you—reply and tell me where. I’m keeping a list!
 
P.P.S. This is a subset of my subscriber list from Substack. If you don’t want to receive emails like this (well, this is the first I’ve ever sent :D), unsubscribe here.

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