CSpathshala (https://cspathshala.org) proudly announces the Seventh conference on Computational Thinking in Schools (CTiS2025) 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 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. 

The first CTiS conference was held in Pune in April 2019 and CTiS2025 is the seventh edition. All six editions were highly successful and were well received by teachers and educators. CTiS2024 had over 70 teachers from 14 states of India presenting 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. 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 the United States of America(USA), Canada, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates(UAE).

CTiS2025 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. 

We are writing to you to request you to become a sponsor for the CTiS2025 edition of the conference. As a sponsor you will get several benefits (as listed below) – additional details such as past sponsors etc. can be found on the website (https://event.india.acm.org/ctis/). Your sponsorship would continue to help us support a larger community of deserving teachers and give them an opportunity to participate at CTiS.