SIGCSE

Welcome to the 54th annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2023). Recent years have seen numerous milestones for the SIGCSE Technical Symposium such as its 50th anniversary, and the first online and hybrid symposiums. This year we celebrate another milestone: the first SIGCSE Technical Symposium held outside of the United States. We are thrilled that so many of you have decided to join us in Canada. Simultaneously, we are also excited to have many more people joining us online as the Technical Symposium is, once again, a hybrid event.

Through all of these milestones the SIGCSE Technical Symposium has continued to be a forum for educators and researchers to share new results and insights, and it continues to be an opportunity for everyone in attendance to reinforce their existing connections within the community, and to build new ones. The SIGCSE Technical Symposium provides many ways to achieve these goals, including papers, panels, special sessions, workshops, the ACM Student Research Competition, Birds of a Feather (BoFs), demos, lightning talks, nifty assignments, posters, and affiliated events. This variety of tracks allows contributors to present their work in the manner best suited to it, while also providing opportunities for attendees to engage with the work and community in the manner that is most effective for them.

Our theme for 2023 is "Prepared for Anything". Exactly what this means is open to interpretation. Maybe it means prepared to come to Canada. Or perhaps it means prepared to adapt to the ongoing challenges of COVID-19. Possibly it means prepared to change and improve our teaching in ways that we never expected. Mayhaps it means prepared for whatever comes in the future, good, bad, or somewhere in between. We hope that it means that you are prepared for another exciting SIGCSE Technical Symposium that includes exceptional content that strengthens your teaching, improves your students' learning, advances your research, inspires you to be active in the community, and increases your career satisfaction.