Code for Tomorrow: Innovating for Classrooms, Communities, and Conservation

Friday, September 26th
The Ellen Theater, 17 West Main Street, Bozeman MT 59715
5pm to 7pm (doors open at 4pm)
Tickets are FREE, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Stibitz-Wilson Awards recognize innovators working at the leading edge of technology to improve learning, lifestyles, and landscapes.

Meet the 2025 honorees:

SERGE BELONGIE & PIETRO PERONA are the leaders of the effort to build Visipedia, a network of people and machines that harvests and organizes visual information from expertly-curated data sets and makes it accessible to anyone anywhere. This “visual encyclopedia” underpins the nature identification apps iNaturalist and Merlin Bird ID.

LORRIE CRANOR is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute and FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the Privacy Engineering masters program.

YASMIN KAFAI is the Lori and Michael Milken President’s Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, with a courtesy appointment in Computer and nformation Science. A leading learning designer and researcher, she develops online tools, projects, and communities that foster coding, critical thinking, and creativity.

MITCHEL RESNICK is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, where he develops new technologies and activities to engage people in creative learning experiences. His Lifelong Kindergarten research group developed the Scratch programming software and online community used by millions of young people around the world.