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8th Conference on

Computational Thinking in schools

CSpathshala (https://cspathshala.org) proudly announces the Eighth conference on Computational Thinking in Schools (CTiS2026) in 30^th July to 1^st August 2026 at IISER, Pune and hosted by SCTR’s PICT ACM Student Chapter (PASC) and PICT Model School.

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 15^th April 2026
Selection Notification to Authors: 20^th June 2026 (Due to some unexpected delays in submissions of abstracts, the selections of abstracts will be announced on 20th June 2026)

8th Conference on

Computational Thinking in Schools

The CTiS (Computational Thinking in Schools) conference is an annual event organised by the ACM India (Association for Computing Machinery, India) and the CSpathshala community. It aims to bring together teachers, educators and researchers to discuss innovations, best practices and issues pertaining to curriculum, pedagogy, policy and implementation, related to bringing computational thinking to schools.

CSpathshala is an ACM India initiative to bring a modern computing curriculum to Indian schools. In our National Education Policy 2020 and in many countries across the world, Computational Thinking (CT) has been identified as one of the essential subjects to be taught and a critical skill to be developed in children during the school years. It advances the notion that the Mathematics and Science behind Computer Science go far beyond the simple ability to use computers, and can be taught and discussed in schools even without the use of computers. The first CTiS conference was held in Pune in April 2019 and the current CTiS2026 is the eighth edition. All Eight editions were highly successful and were well received by teachers and educators.

The Seventh Annual Conference on Computational Thinking in Schools (CTiS 2025) was organised by CSpathshala, an ACM India education initiative from 24th to 26th July, 2025 at IISER, Pune and hosted by GK Gurukul School, Pune and SCTR’s PICT ACM Student Chapter (PASC). The three-day national-level conference brought together more than 350 educators, researchers, and school teachers and an online participation of 1500+ across 18 Indian states .

The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Kamladevi Awate, Joint Director, SCERTM Pune. The Program Committee chairs Chitra Babu and Lakshmi Gandhi shared that over 490 abstracts were received from teachers across India, of which 82 were selected for presentation as well as poster/demo through a rigorous review process by the program committee.

CTiS2026 aims to provide a platform for teachers, educators and experts to share their best practices as well as challenges faced in implementing computational thinking in education. The discussions will focus on integrating CT activities both plugged and unplugged (with or without the use of computers) in various school subjects, on student learning outcomes and on disseminating findings of CT based experiments or classroom research conducted by teachers and educators across the country. The conference will feature keynote talks, workshops, panel discussions and paper presentations on various themes related to Computational thinking.