2025 Hawaiʻi CS PD Summit

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.