CSTA Washington
Over the past few weeks, participating Washington congressional districts announced the winners of the Congressional App Challenge for 2025 in their districts: To see all 2025 Congressional App Challenge winners, visit Congressional App Challenge – 2025 Winners. The Congressional App Challenge is an official initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives that encourages middle school…
In March 2026, NCWIT (National Center for Women in Technology) announced the national recipients of its 2026 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Awards, honoring 300 students throughout the United States. Aadya Syal of Sammamish, WA and Issaquah High School was one of the 40 National Winners in 2026. In addition, the following 10 Washington students…
An archived version of the March 2026 edition of the CSTA Washington newsletter
Highlights of the Feb 2026 CSTA Washington newsletter include CSTA Washington Bylaws Vote Update and New Mission Statement / Advocating for CS: Washington AP Day at the Capitol / CSTA Washington at NCCE Feb 25-27 / Virtual Lunch and Learn, AI and Equity PD on Mar 21 / CSTA Washington CTE and CS Education Data Dashboards / Seattle Seahawks defeat New England Patriots 29 -13 in Super Bowl LX
Update: Feb 7, 2026
The membership of CSTA Washington voted to adopt the updated bylaws. The voting information was sent to CSTA Washington members on January 14th with voting closing two weeks later.
Washington state educators and students met at the capitol building on January 25th, 2026, to talk about the importance of AP exam program funding in our state and its impact for low-income students. The funding for low-income students taking AP exams used to fully cover all exam expenses, but was left out of the current…
The following embeds an archived version of the January 2026 edition of the CSTA Washington newsletter. Highlights include Click here to see the original archived content. Links in the archived content may no longer work as expected
The 2025-26 CSTA Washington Board of Directors. The position of Vice-President Coastal/Peninsula is still open if you would like to serve.
Thank you for visiting CSTA Washington’s new website: https://cstawa.org CSTA Washington has launched this new website designed to do something our chapter page on csteachers.org could not: showcase the full breadth and depth of K–12 computer science (and AI) education happening across Washington State. This new site gives us the flexibility to share timely news,…
By Jacqueline Russell Last week I spent training over 300 amazing Microsoft employees who volunteered their time and expertise to facilitate an Hour of AI workshop at 5 local school districts here in the Puget Sound – reaching over 7,000 students. Thank you so much 🙏 to all our incredible ❤️🔥 volunteers!!! During Computer Science…