We want to thank you and everyone involved in the life of our Chapters for their wonderful response rate, insights, and follow-ups since we launched the Chapter Revitalization Plan in March. With each contact, CSTA has been cleaning-up the Chapter Contact List, sending out supplies, answering questions, and working to make Chapter support more effective and efficient for all of our Chapters.

As the updates are coming in, we're hearing some great news. Nevada, one of the newest Chapters, has hit the ground running. They met with Governor Brian Sandoval to tell them about their work and the importance of computer science in making Nevada and our nation a better place! Well done, Nevada! We want to hear about your goings-on. Send us an update and or a photo, or better yet, why not start using your Chapter Community page? Each Chapter has a community or group page on csteachers.org. Here you can connect with your Chapter members, share your updates and photos, post events, and much more. All you need to get started is at least one person to be the administrator for the page. Let us know if you have a Chapter rep interested in being the administrator for this feature.

In addition to each Chapter community group, there is also a Chapter Leader group that we hope will become a place to continue these conversations and allow the Chapter Leaders from across our membership to stay in touch and share their successes and questions. Log in to your csteachers.org profile to view the group and join.

As we head into the Memorial Day Weekend and the unofficial start of summer, we wanted to provide you with this latest update on CRP progress:

Updating Chapter Contact List
With every contact that comes in, the Contact List improves and allows CSTA to ensure that the updates are getting to the right people for the benefit of the respective Chapters. If you have not yet verified your current Chapter leaders and correct contact person, please do that today by emailing [email protected].

Since March, CSTA has been shipping out new giveaways and supplies to Chapters. Upon receiving verification of current leaders and contact person from Chapter, a shipment is sent out to the designated contact person. If you have sent in your Chapter verification and have not received your supply box, please let us know.     

We continue to work on developing  online resources for our Chapter Leaders-and the plan is to have this area fully up-to-speed over the summer. Once we finalize the Chapter Manual, access to all of the important information it contains will be found in the Chapter Leaders resource area. Stay tuned for more information!

Great progress is being made on the creation of the Chapter Manual. We are making sure that the manual will be pragmatic and address all the important aspects of Chapter administration, operations, and compliance. The manual will also include additional resources for Chapter leaders-and these resources and links are being developed based on the questions and requests that are submitted to the CSTA Office. Our goal is to make the manual practical and user-friendly. The Chapter Manual will be "unveiled" at the Chapter Leadership Summit taking place at our conference this July in Baltimore.