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Publish 2026 international conference site.
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‎mkdocs.yml‎

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- 'STACK Professionals Network': 'Communities/Professional_network.md'
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- 'STACK Researchers Network': 'Communities/Researchers_network.md'
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- 'Commercial Partners': 'Partners/index.md'
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- Training and Events:
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- 'Meetings': 'Training_and_events.md'
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- 'Annual conferences': 'Conference.md'
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- 'Training events in 2020': '2020meetings.md'
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- 'Meeting reports': 'MeetingReports/index.md'
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- Training and Events:
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- Meetings: Training_and_events.md
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- Annual conferences:
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- Overview: Conference.md
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- International Meeting of the STACK Community 2026: Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/index.md
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- Training events in 2020: 2020meetings.md
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- Meeting reports: MeetingReports/index.md
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- Projects:
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- Case Studies: CaseStudies/
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- Demo: 'https://stack-demo.maths.ed.ac.uk/demo/'
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- Documentation: 'https://docs.stack-assessment.org/en/'
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extra:
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subnavs:
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conf2026:
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- title: Home
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href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/
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children:
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- { title: Overview, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/ }
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- { title: Leadership & Organisers, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/committee/ }
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- { title: Key Dates, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/dates/ }
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- { title: Venue, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/venue/ }
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- { title: Conference Format, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/conference-format/ }
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- { title: Registration, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/registration/ }
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- { title: Abstract Submission, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/abstract-submission/ }
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# - { title: Conference Proceedings, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/conference-proceedings/ }
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- { title: Cultural Activities, href: /Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/cultural-activities/ }

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<a class="navbar-brand" href="{{nav.homepage.url | url}}"><img style="vertical-align:baseline" src="{{nav.homepage.url | url}}/img/logo_large.png" alt="STACK logo" height="20"><b>STACK</b></a>
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<a class="navbar-brand" href="{{nav.homepage.url | url}}"><img style="vertical-align:baseline"
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‎website_files/CaseStudies/2025/African_STACK_conference_2025.md‎

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<img class="figure-img img-fluid" src="../Images/african-stack-conference-participants.png" alt="An image of conference participants at Bahir Dar.">
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<figcaption class="figure-caption">Conference participants at Bahir Dar.</figcaption>
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**2026:** STACK Conference will take place 27-29 May 2026 in Trieste University, Trieste, Italy. This is a conference for undergraduate mathematics educators, STACK users and developers, to exchange ideas, share challenges, recent projects, and start new collaborations
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**2026:** [The International Meeting of the STACK Community 2026](https://events.idems.international/event/2/) will take place 27-31 July 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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**2026:** [The International Meeting of the STACK Community 2026](Events/2026-07-27-Conf-2026/index.md) will take place 27-31 July 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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# Abstract Submission
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Submissions are now open for the International Meeting of the STACK Community 2026.
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We welcome a wide range of contributions from educators, researchers, developers, instructional designers, and institutions working with STACK or with broader automated assessment technologies. Submissions may take the form of **paper presentations**, **lightning talks**, or **posters**.
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<p><center><a class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" href="https://events.idems.international/event/2/" target="_blank" role="button">Submit an Abstract</a></center></p>
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## Presentation Formats
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The conference will include paper presentations, lightning talks, and poster presentations, as described in the **[Conference Format](conference-format.md)** page and detailed below.
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#### Paper Presentations (25 minutes)
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Paper presentations accommodate a broad range of substantial contributions. These may include, but are not limited to:
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#### Lightning Talks (10 minutes)
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Submissions may be aligned with one or more of the following thematic areas.
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*Presentations and discussions describing rigorous approaches to evaluating learning. Approaches might include experiments, analyses of log data, surveys, interviews, or other educational research methods.*
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*Presentations and discussions on how STACK is being used to meet different challenges. These might be formative assessment for large classes, providing immediate personalised feedback in cases where there are no teaching assistants, providing assessment that are low stakes to promote practice, challenges with devices, e.g. using STACK on mobile phones, limited access to internet, resistance to technology, etc.*
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*Presentations and discussions on building and leveraging effective collaboration between institutions at multiple scales and across contexts. Topics could include resource development, resource sharing, knowledge transfer, education research, and integration across development – deployment – research.*
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- **Idrissa Said** (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) — *Tanzanian Representative*
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- **Abdu Mohammed Seid** (Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia) — *Ethiopian Representative*
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- **George Lawi** (MMUST, Kenya) — *Kenyan Representative*
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- **Maurine Songa** (Kenya Mathematics Society; Kisii University, Kenya) — *KMS Representative*
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- **Hosted by:** University of Nairobi
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