2025 Hawaiʻi CS PD Summit

Join us for a  conversation about ways your school can provide students with opportunities to learn digital skills —  like coding and app development — to help prepare students for success in the workforce and beyond.

Learn about freely available Swift coding resources for teachers who want to engage students! Teachers who’ve used these resources will share their background and classroom experience, provide candid insight from their experience and share student engagement and outcomes.

Swift is used to build many of the world’s most popular apps. Today there are more than 850,000 apps written in Swift on the App Store. And when students learn Swift and SwiftUI they’re building skills that are used to create many of the apps you may use every day.

Learn how Nānākuli-Wai`anae Complex Area computer science pilot is bringing mobile app development to the forefront of CS implementation.  Come see how teachers integrated ELA, Hawaiian Studies, Health, and Music with computer science.  Audience members can interact with apps developed by elementary, middle, and high school students that used the design thinking process.

In this hands-on session, participants will learn how coding apps and workforce skills are inherently connected. According to a CASEL report, 92 percent of businesses agree that soft skills are equally or more important than technical skills, specifically problem-solving and communication. Experiences like building a mobile app can actually help develop, enhance, and augment these skills. Using the six-step design thinking process, educators will build their own apps and learn how piquing interest in computer science starting as early as elementary school and expanding on that through middle and high school can lay the foundation for the vital and transferable skills students will need for their education careers and beyond. Please bring a laptop or a tablet for this session.