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.

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.