Peer-reviewed conference publications

• Taina Lehtimäki, Rosemary Monahan, Kevin Casey, Aidan Mooney, and Thomas J. Naughton. 2023.
  A computational thinking obstacle course based on Bebras tasks for K-12 schools.
  In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 478–484. DOI:10.1145/3587102.3588775
Supplementary material: CT Obstacle Course teacher feedback form
• Taina Lehtimäki, Rosemary Monahan, Aidan Mooney, Kevin Casey, and Thomas J. Naughton. 2023.
  Computational thinking resources inspired by Bebras.
  In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, p. 663. DOI:10.1145/3587103.3594203
• Taina Lehtimäki, James Hamm, Aidan Mooney, Kevin Casey, Rosemary Monahan, and Thomas J. Naughton. 2022.
  A computational thinking module for secondary students and pre-service teachers using Bebras-style tasks.
  In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article No. 19, p. 1. DOI:10.1145/3555009.3555030
• Taina Lehtimäki, Rosemary Monahan, Aidan Mooney, Kevin Casey, and Thomas J. Naughton. 2022.
  Bebras-inspired computational thinking primary school resources co-created by computer science academics and teachers.
  In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 1 (ITiCSE '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 207–213. DOI:10.1145/3502718.3524804
• James Lockwood and Aidan Mooney. 2018.
  Developing a computational thinking test using Bebras problems.
  In Joint Proceedings of the CC-TEL 2018 and TACKLE 2018 Workshops, co-located with 13th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2018), Leeds, UK, Article No. 1, pp. 1–12.
• Aidan Mooney, Joseph Duffin, Thomas Naughton, Rosemary Monahan, James Power, and Phil Maguire. 2014.
  PACT: An initiative to introduce computational thinking to second-level education in Ireland.
  Irish Conference on Engaging Pedagogy (ICEP 2014). Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland, pp. 1–14.

Non-peer-reviewed publications

• Taina Lehtimäki, Liam Jordon, Robert Cleary, Thomas Naughton. 2022.
  Teacher notes: Computational thinking workbook for 3rd to 6th class.
  Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland, 2022. ISBN (Electronic) 978-1-9998055-8-6.
• Taina Lehtimäki, Thomas Naughton, Aidan Mooney, Kevin Casey, and Rosemary Monahan. 2022.
  Computational thinking workbook for 3rd to 6th class.
  Maynooth University, County Kildare, Ireland, 2022. ISBN (Print) 978-1-9998055-4-8 ISBN (Electronic) 978-1-9998055-5-5.
• Thomas Naughton, Aidan Mooney, Rosemary Monahan, Kevin Casey, Joseph Duffin, Liadh Kelly, Charles Markham. 2019.
  Bebras-related/-inspired activities in Maynooth University 2018-2019.
  15th International Bebras Task Workshop, Balatonkenese, Hungary, May 2019.

Non-peer-reviewed presentations

• Taina Lehtimäki, "Online computational thinking module for transition year," CSLinc CPD TY module presentation, Online, 19th April 2023.
• Taina Lehtimäki, "Teaching computational thinking ​through active games​," Computers in Education Society of Ireland Annual Conference (CESICON 2023), Atlantic Technical University, Galway City, 11th March 2023.
• Rosemary Monahan and Taina Lehtimäki, "Online computational thinking module ​for transition year," MathsMeet Conference 2022, Maynooth University, Maynooth, 15th October 2022.
• Taina Lehtimäki, "Online computational thinking module ​for transition year," Computers in Education Society of Ireland Annual Conference (CESICON 2022), Online, 5th March 2022.
• Taina Lehtimäki, Rosemary Monahan, and Thomas Naughton, "Interactive computational thinking workshop for primary and secondary school teachers," Computers in Education Society of Ireland Annual Conference (CESICON 2021), Online, 27th February 2021.
• Thomas Naughton and Taina Lehtimäki, "Workshops on computational thinking using Bebras tasks," CESI TeachMeet, Athlone, Ireland, 28th February 2020.

Continuing professional development (CPD) workshops held

• Maynooth University, Wed 22nd March 2023 (5pm - 8pm) CT4T Generalisation
• Maynooth University, Wed 8th March 2023 (5pm - 8pm) CT4T Evaluation and logic
• Maynooth University, Wed 1st March 2023 (5pm - 8pm) CT4T Abstraction and algorithms
• Maynooth University, Sat 25th February 2023 (10am - 4:30pm) CT4T Decomposition, pattern recognition, and representation
• Maynooth University, Mon 18th July 2022 (9:30am - 12pm) Co-creation workshop (1st-2nd class primary)
• Maynooth University, Mon 11th July 2022 (10:30am - 1:30pm) Co-creation workshop (1st-2nd class primary)
• Maynooth University, Mon 4th July 2022 (10:30am - 1:30pm) Co-creation workshop (1st-2nd class primary)
• Maynooth University, Mon 27th June 2022 (10:30am - 1:30pm) Co-creation workshop (1st-2nd class primary)
• Maynooth University, Wed 25th May 2022 (11am - 1pm) Introduction to computational thinking
• Maynooth University, Mon 9th May 2022 (2pm - 4pm) Introduction to computational thinking
• Online, Tue 30th November 2021 (7pm - 9pm) Christmas-themed tasks
• Online, Thu 25th November 2021 (3pm - 5pm) Christmas-themed tasks
• Online, Wed 16th June 2021 (3pm - 6pm) Summer-themed tasks
• Online, Wed 26th May 2021 (3pm - 6pm) Focus on algorithmic thinking
• Online, Wed 5th May 2021 (1pm - 4pm) Computational thinking in the classroom using Bebras tasks
• Online, Wed 28th April 2021 (1pm - 4pm) Computational thinking in the classroom using Bebras tasks
• Online, Wed 14th April 2021 (10am - 1pm) Computational thinking in the classroom using Bebras tasks
• Online, Wed 24th March 2021 (3pm - 6pm) Computational thinking in the classroom using Bebras tasks
• Online, Wed 12th March 2021 (1pm - 4pm) Computational thinking in the classroom using Bebras tasks
• Maynooth University, 28th February 2020 (10am - 2pm) Computational thinking in the classroom using Bebras tasks
• Maynooth University, 31st January 2020 (10am - 1pm) Computational thinking in the classroom using Bebras tasks

If you would like to learn more about any of our publications please email us at pact@mu.ie.