Congratulations to TC3 stalwarts, Christophe Reffay, Peter Micheuz and Nicholas Mavengere on receiving IFIP Service Awards for their contributions to the work of Technical Committee 3 (Computers in Education).
Christophe Reffay has been IFIP TC3’s national representative from France since 2017. He has been a stalwart and very active member, engaged in IFIP TC3 events and activities widely, providing regular feedback to consultations, as well as providing invaluable support to working groups through membership of the IFIP TC3 Executive Committee, and a member of WG3.1 since 2022. Christophe’s current research focuses on primary school teacher professional development in computational thinking. He was a key member of the Zanzibar Declaration development group, which ran of series of important webinars, leading to the publication of a final report. He successfully led the International Programme Committee of the IFIP TC3 OCCE 2024 conference held in Bournemouth, UK, where participants gained from Christophe’s unexpected talent – in dancing!
Peter Micheuz has been a very long-standing member of IFIP TC3 and WG3.1, active in events and activities since 1993 when he participated as a teacher with pupils who were rewarded for a national project. Peter’s first IFIP TC3 conference was in 2002, and since 2019, he has been the IFIP TC3 WG3.1 vice-chair. He has regularly submitted papers for conferences, many published in post-conference proceedings. Peter was one of the founding members of the IFIP TC3 Curriculum Task Force in 2015, contributing to its series of seminars, papers and discussions. Peter worked on the major redesign of the IFIP TC3 website, begun in 2016. As developer and administrator, he has been actively involved with other members of IFIP TC3 in creating its design, maintaining, improving and updating the website from its redesign to the present.
Nicholas Mavengere has been a long-standing and active member of IFIP TC3 WG3.4, being its vice-chair from 2019 and chair since 2024. He has contributed to almost every IFIP TC3 and WG conference for the past 15 years, regularly submitting papers to conferences, many of which (10 in total) have been published in post-conference proceedings and in the IFIP TC3 journal EAIT. He was the co-editor of post-conference proceedings for the IFIP TC3 SaITE conference run in Guimarães, Portugal in 2016, and the IFIP WG3.4 SUZA conference run in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 2019. In 2024, Nicholas was the chair of the Local Organising Committee of the successful IFIP TC3 OCCE 2024 conference run in Bournemouth, UK.
