This was an excellent workshop!
The most important takeaway for me was slowing the Chatbot down and being explicit about working step by step, allowing for tweaks at each stage. As Josh pointed out, the chatbot will otherwise want to just write the entire application at once, making it hard for the developer to partner in the process.
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Charlie MacFadyen
Digital Learning Leader
CS Teacher
Champlain Valley Union HS
HInesburg, VT
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-13-2026 02:15 PM
From: Lucie deLaBruere
Subject: Vibe Coding Workshop - Janurary
Resources, Recordings, and Reflection Discussion Prompts from January 12 Event - Intro to Vibe Coding
WOW... what a great workshop lead by Josh Blumberg. It was jam packed with background, foundational concepts, Demo's, a hands on lab, and some very helpful overviews of so many topics around Vibe Coding. Josh left us with some powerful reflection questions that many of us have been talking about since the workshop. Let's use this Discussion Space to expand the discussions and invite our other Vermont-CSTA members to the conversations we are having.
- How are you personally feeling about all this?
- How will your use of AI change based on what you learned?
- How will our teaching of computer science evolve?
- How should the competencies and skills that we teach students change?
Elementary Educators – What interactive edtech could you build for your students to use to practice a skill and learn a concept?
IT Staff – What tool could you build for your organization?
High School Educators – What could you see students building?
I've added the recording to our January 12 Event slides (Slide 8) and on Slide 9 I added a quick 15 minute Demo of the hands on part of the workshop for those who wanted to review the steps. In that Quick Demo video I also showed how to SHARE what the game you created into a separate HTML file that can be downloaded, shared, and viewed in your browser (outside the Gemini Preview). You can also find Josh's slides and the Google Drive folder of resources he shared with us.
Thanks to all who attended our first CSTA-Vermont event of 2026. Now let's chat about it here!
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Lucie deLaBruere
Burlington VT
Original Message:
Sent: 01-07-2026 02:14 PM
From: Lucie deLaBruere
Subject: Vibe Coding Workshop - Janurary
We hope you will join us on Jan 12 for our first 2026 event - A virtual workshop lead by Josh Blumberg
No experience necessary to participate.
Vibe Coding 101 - What will programming look like in an AI-shaped future?
When: Jan 12, 2026 from 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM (ET)
AI tools are changing how software gets built, but what does that look like in practice? In this hands-on workshop, you'll use Gemini to build a working two-player game from scratch, no prior coding experience required. We'll start by collaborating with the AI on a planning document, then watch it generate code phase by phase while you test and iterate. You'll also see demos of rapid prototyping tools like Lovable and V0, plus a look at how AI integrates into professional development environments. You'll leave with firsthand experience of AI-assisted development, and some new questions about what this means for how we teach programming. This workshop is appropriate for participants with no coding experience as well as experienced computer science educators.
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Lucie deLaBruere
Burlington VT
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