The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has decided to pause the CSTA/Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing for the 2024–2025 school year. This pause will allow CSTA staff, the CSTA Board of Directors, ACM, and the CSTA Awards Committee to reevaluate the award’s structure to ensure better alignment with CSTA’s mission and values.
Since the 2015–2016 school year, CSTA, in partnership with ACM, has had the privilege of recognizing over 30 high school seniors who chose to pursue advanced studies in computer science or technology. Pausing for the 2024-2025 school year will allow us to intentionally evaluate the award and continue it to align with CSTA’s mission and values.
We understand that this decision will impact high school seniors graduating in 2025 who were intending to apply for this award. To accommodate students who will miss this year’s opportunity, we will be opening the 2025-2026 CSTA/ACM Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing to high school seniors and college freshmen and will award up to four prizes to both high school seniors and college freshmen.
We express our deepest gratitude to the families of Dr. David Cutler and Dr. Gordon Bell for their continued support. We look forward to relaunching the updated award for the 2025-2026 school year.
