Latest information and updates
There is always something new happening at CS in Schools. Over the past few months, we’ve started a pilot of a new industry project course, launched the programme nationally, and doubled the number of schools in our programmes. Stay informed by visiting our news and stories page to learn about the news as it breaks.
Latest Blog Posts
Our 2021 Launch
We’re excited to be expanding CS in Schools nationally. In 2021, we are supporting schools across Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory, in addition to growing our successful Victorian programme. Overall, we are more than doubling the size of our programmes. CS in Schools will be supporting around 150 teachers at over 38 schools across Australia. Those teachers will be supported by more than 30 of our…
Changes to the Repl.it Teaching Environment
This post is aimed at teachers who are teaching our materials in Term 4 2020. If you’re formally in our programmes, you should have received an email. We found out recently that repl.it’s classroom environment is being retired soon, and that we need to migrate our CS in Schools courses to the new “teams” environment. This post explains the details. What’s happened to repl.it classrooms? We can no longer use…

New Year 8 Coding Programme in Testing
More than 3,500 students from 21 schools have studied our Year 7 course. The students have learnt the fundamental of coding in the Python programming language, and created imaginative games as their capstone assignment. Schools and teachers in the programme have been asking: “What’s next?”. The answer is our new Year 8 course, which continues the journey of learning the fundamentals of coding, and gives students the building blocks they…

Announcing our new industry-focused Year 9 course
CS in Schools is pleased to announce the launch of the new Year 9 elective in partnership with Carsales and Domain. Students will work on solving real-world company challenges, and present their solutions during a company visit.

CS in Schools published paper
We recently published a peer reviewed paper describing our work at CS in Schools in 2019. Learn more about the paper and download a free copy.

Summer 2020 Update
We’ve just finished Term 1, 2020, and we’re getting ready to transition over programmes online for Term 2. Learn all about our start to 2020.

Spring Update 2019
We’re almost finished recruiting schools and volunteers for 2020, and we’ve just had an incredible awards night at RMIT University.