6th Conference on
Computational Thinking in Schools
The 6th Conference on Computational Thinking in Schools was held on July 5th and 6th, 2024, at IISER, Pune. The conference was hosted by GGIS School, Pune, and the PICT ACM Student Chapter in a hybrid format—both in-person and online. It was inaugurated by Prof. Sunil Bhagwat, Director of IISER. The main keynote talk was delivered by Prof. Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, University of Cambridge, UK, on the topic Teaching Programming in Schools: Principles and Practices.
Over 70 teachers from 14 states of India presented abstracts across various thematic areas, including CT and Mathematics Education, CT and Science Education, CT and Societal Problems, CT and Inclusion, CT and Coding, and CT and Physical Computing. These were followed by presentations from organizations. There were 29 poster and demo presentations by teachers from various states of India. Notably, the presentations on CT and Inclusion were a highlight of the conference.
A panel discussion on AI in CT Education: Costs and Benefits was moderated by Prof. R. Ramanujam from Azim Premji University. The panelists included Abha Meghe from Meghe Group of Schools, Navin Kabra from ReliScore, Santhi Vishala from APSWREIS, and Madhavan Mukund from Chennai Mathematical Institute.
Workshops included Promoting Critical Thinking with Refute Questions conducted by Viraj Kumar from IISc (Indian Institute of Science), Bengaluru, and an interactive workshop on Puzzles and Games by Jyothi Krishnan from CCL, IIT Gandhinagar.
The conference saw participation from over 350 teachers, educators, and academics at IISER Pune, with an online participation of 1,500 from more than 20 states of India, as well as from Canada, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and the USA.
The conference was supported by ACM India’s Institutional Sponsors: Persistent (Platinum), TCS Research (Platinum), Google (Gold), Flipkart (Silver), IBM (Silver); and CTiS sponsors, TCS Empowers, Sunrise Infotech, Microsoft, and Quest Alliance.


Event Details

5th and 6th July, 2024

IISER, Pune,
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Pune, Maharashtra 411008
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