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.

As you might have heard, I'm back at Stuyvesant teaching. Not permanent or full time - just covering for a CS teacher who's on grand jury duty. She's out for three week but since I was at SIGCSETS for the first one, I'm only covering for two. Last week and the one upcoming. I wouldn't be covering all 5 of the teacher's classes, just 3 - periods 6, 7, and 8, the second half of Stuy's intro CS class.

The day 2 keynote was really a treat. After giving out the years SIGCSE awards, instead of getting a standard talk, all three recipients, Jonathan Mwaura, Mitchel Resnick and Manuel Pérez-Quiñones participated in a fireside chat with Dan Garcia. The only letdown was that since Dan was moderating the chat, we also didn't get his views into the mix. With three independent voices, the chat pushed in a few different directions but the theme that spoke most to me was when Pérez Quiñones, commenting on what the future held for CS Education said "I hope the future is less so we can do more.