Past events

This summer, the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) will offer a one-week Summer Professional Development Institute in partnership with MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program. The July 31 – August 4, 2017 institute will provide an opportunity for middle and high school educators to use StarLogo Nova’s block programming platform and Imagination Toolbox curriculum materials to create computational models or simulations.

Houston Independent School District is hosting a two-day workshop facilitated by Irene Fong.

Chicago Public Schools will be offering two Project GUTS Professional Development workshops this summer.  The first 3-day workshop is hosted by Kris Beck and Lindsay McGowan.  The second 3-day workshop is hosted by Rodney Weems and Lindsay McGowan.

CSTA 2017 is the annual conference of the Computer Science Teachers Association. The main goal of the conference is to provide quality information/assistance--professional development--for computer science teachers and others who wish to include computing in their teaching.

Project GUTS will be hosting a booth at CSTA '17.  Please let Irene Lee (ialee@mit.edu) know if you will be attending and can spend some time at the booth.

This is a NexTech sponsored CS in Science workshop being held at IUPUI Park / 100 Learning Center.

Google Doc for Indianapolis CS in Science

Project GUTS will offer a CS in Science 3 day summer PD workshop in Riverside CA on June 21-23, 2017. This workshop will be facilitated by Su Gibbs and Jennifer Cordova.

IMPORTANT note to participants:  Before the workshop:

We are doing an on-line version of the course (offered to you in person through this workshop), and so can use parts of that resource to allow you to complete the required pre-workshop activities.  

NMSU CS department will be hosting the Teachers with GUTS summer PD workshop and practicum between June 12-23, 2017.  This workshop will consist of an intensive first week of learning the Project GUTS curriculum and developing models, followed by a second week of practicums at which teachers will practice teaching the curriculum during a Project GUTS middle school camp.

For more information, please contact Raena Cota at gk-12@nmsu.edu

Project GUTS will be offering a 1.5 day workshop in conjunction with the We Teach CS conference at University of Texas, Austin.  The workshop will take place on June 9-10th at the Commons on the UT Austin Pickle campus.

Contact: To apply please contact Carol Fletcher, carol.fletcher@utexas.edu

Project GUTS Online Professional Development Course 2017 will be offered with facilitation on June 5 - 30, 2017.  In this online course you will experience computer modeling and simulation of complex adaptive systems as a learner then reflect on how you will implement the curriculum and modify it to meet the needs of your students. 

Teachers with GUTS will offer its end of year workshop for cohort 1 teachers on Saturday, May 13th, from 10:30 am - 4:30 pm at the Old Santa Fe Inn.  At this workshop, we will debrief the Teacher with GUTS PD experience and talk about next steps for teachers.

Join us as we talk with Cristian Rizzi about teaching with Project GUTS in Argentina.  Cristian offered a version of our Project GUTS MOOC in Spanish last year and has shared with us many of the materials he translated and developed for Spanish speakers.

Time: May 2, 2017 6:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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This is a phase 2 PD workshop being held at the Education Service District 101.