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Sigcse 2025 part 4 - sessions and the rest

To finish up, we'll look at some of the other sessions I attended but first a couple of notes. One thing I again noticed was the lack of pedagogy sessions. Maybe I missed something but other than Nifty Assignments, which isn't really about pedagogy and doesn't interest me much anymore I didn't see anything. This is nothing new but at least a couple of years ago we had "It seemed a like a good idea at the time" coordinated by Jim Huggins and Dan Garcia in all their pink suited glory and Colleen Lewis's "Micopedagogy" session (I hope I'm remembering the name right).

SIGCSETS 2025 part 3 - BOFs

Once again, there were three sets of Birds of a Feather sessions. Two at the end of the day on Thursday but before the big reception and one partly over lunch on Friday. Last year I enjoyed two but walked out o the third mid session. This year, I enjoyed two but just missed the third because I got caught up talking to an old friend. Both of the sessions I enjoyed suffered from the usual BOF problems - since the sessions were well attended and time was short, it was tough to get deep discussions going and also keep the entire BOF together.

SIGCSE 2025 - Opening Keynote

I spent last week in Pittsburgh for The SIGCSE Technical Symposium, that's SIGCSETS to you. Lots of talks, lots of sessions and lots of people. We drove in on Tuesday since Batya had a workshop Wednesday afternoon. Devorah and I along with a cousin who was also at the conferences spent the day playing tourist. We hit the Warhol museum and also wandered by Randyland. Even made it to Carnegie Hall without practicing.