Past events

5-day virtual workshop for middle-school science teachers.

Over the past three school years, in collaboration with the Marquette University and the PUMP-CS initiative, middle school science teachers from Milwaukee Public Schools and districts throughout Wisconsin and beyond, have taken part in instructional cohorts to learn, explore, and integrate computational science skills with the goal of developing and using models in the science classroom. 

This is Project GUTS' PD that is part of the PUMP-CS PD Summits.

The course is designed to integrate Computer Science (CS) concepts into existing middle school science classes, especially in contexts in which a standalone CS course is not available. Helps students from all different backgrounds to engage in scientific inquiry by investigating topics of interest to their local communities and sharing their experiments and findings.

The Madison Alabama City School district is sponsoring a 3-day Project GUTS seminar for their middle school science teachers.  The online workshop will help teachers meet the new Alabama standards on incorporating computer science into regular education science classes.  

Facilitators are Susan Gibbs and Jennifer Cordova.

Link to Google Spreadsheet for this workshop

Project GUTS’ CS in Science workshop offers interactive instruction from an experienced GUTS facilitators including an introduction to computer science, pedagogy, curriculum overview, and practice with the StarLogo Nova programming environment. The CS in Science curriculum features: use of a block-based programming environment on the web (slnova.org); daily lesson plans for teachers, videos, and supplemental extension resources; a modular design that allows for a variety of classroom implementations; and alignment to national science (NGSS) and computer science (CSTA) standards.

This is a week long training for Middle School Science and Technology teachers; and a simultaneous facilitator training and design workshop for returning teachers.  

Google Doc for workshop

Teachers with GUTS will be offering a curriculum design workshop for returning Project GUTS Cohort 2 teachers.  The workshop will be held the week of June 18, in Las Cruces, NM.

Google Doc for Workshop

The Teachers with GUTS cohort 3 workshop will be held as part of the NM CS PD Week, June 4-8, 2018 in Albuquerque, NM.  This workshop is open to NM teachers.

Link to workshop google doc

Cohort 2 Winter/Spring Workshop

Link to the workshop agenda

Link to the Troubleshooting in StarLogo Nova 2.0

Link to the Scientific Practices and Computational Thinking in Modeling & Simulation

Project GUTS was invited to participate in the NM EPSCoR Interdisciplinary Innovation Working Group (I-IWG) workshop on New Mexico Computational Science Pathway: an Integral Part of NM’s Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education.  At this workshop, participants will discuss computer science pathways in New Mexico (what currently exists in New Mexico? What populations are served by these? then begin to map out pathways, starting with K-12 through higher education and ending with employment.

One day refresher workshop for TwiG Cohort 2 participants. 

Location: Centennial HIgh School

Link to Projects and Resources (Google Doc for workshop)

Teachers with GUTS will be offering a curriculum design workshop for returning Project GUTS teachers.  The workshop will be held the week of July 31-August 4th at a location to be announced.

Google doc for workshop

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.