PROJECT GUTS’ STORY

​Our Story

Project GUTS began in January 2007 as a collaboration between the Santa Fe Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge, the Santa Fe Public School district, Santa Fe independent schools, Santa Fe science-related businesses and informal science centers. Initially Project GUTS was a youth-serving program that hoped to engage 200 middle school students and 40 school day teachers a year. Project GUTS grew and learned to support a community of teachers within New Mexico before reaching a national audience through a partnership with Code.org in 2014. Project GUTS is now used by an international network of teachers who have learned to teach the GUTS way through our online course developed with funding from Google. In 2016, Project GUTS moved to its new home at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scheller Teacher Education Program / Education Arcade.

Who is Who

Program Director: Irene Lee
info@projectguts.org

Irene Lee is the Project GUTS’ Principal Investigator and Program Director. In this position, she plays many roles; she organizes Project GUTS workshops, develops the curriculum, manages the program, conducts on the research component of Project GUTS, and shares our findings with the community and funding institutions. Irene served as the Chair of the CSTA Computational Thinking Task Force and Professional Development Committee, and is a member of the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards writing team and the K12 CS Framework writing team.

Curriculum Developers: Susan Gibbs
Graphic Designer: Maria Levy
Guide Developer: Wendy Huang