SIGCSE 2016 welcomes colleagues from around the world to present demos, lightning talks, papers, panels, posters, special sessions, and workshops, and to discuss computer science education in birds-of-a-feather sessions and informal settings. The SIGCSE Technical Symposium addresses problems common among educators working to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses. The symposium provides a forum for sharing new ideas for syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction.

Submissions are welcomed that are in line with the conference theme, Engage, Energize, Empower! The theme encourages all of us to adopt engaging curricula and pedagogy that will energize our students and empower them to become lifelong learners able to adapt in the ever-changing field of Computer Science. We are particularly interested in keeping our community connected with interesting educational efforts in upper level courses, open-source software, outreach, and education research. We are continuing to keep our commitment to the inclusion of a wide-variety of submissions in the program that span the spectrum of experience reports to scientifically rigorous educational studies. We are excited for you to be a part of showing our community why we all need to keep computing.