FAQ
I am an international student, do I need a visa?
No, Mexico admits anyone with a valid U.S. visa to MIT.
List of Mexican Cities
Puebla, Ciudad de Mexico, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, Hidalgo, Guadalajara, Monterrey
DESIGN PATTERNS
Computational thinking is a necessary fundamental skill for everyone. It's as important as reading, writing, and arithmetic. The need is evidenced by MIT's recent report on computational thinking. President Obama's Computer Science for All initiative recognized the same in k-12, "Our economy is rapidly shifting, and both educators and business leaders are increasingly recognizing that computer science (CS) is a “new basic” skill necessary for economic opportunity and social mobility." Join us in a journey to the fun world of computation!
Cooking
Have you ever considered cooking as a series of patterns? That when a cook follows a recipe he/she is folowing an algorithm?
Packing
Have you ever considered that packing a suitcase is an optimization problem? To pack we must decide between weight, size, and volume.
Currencies
Have you ever considered that finding a coin is a search pattern? To find a coin you must first identify the type of coin, the size, and the color. Each question establishing a different search parameter.
Videos
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Having Fun - Beats & Singing
THEMES
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Maximizing Happiness
Patterns to maximize happiness.
Secrets
Patterns to keep, share, and discover secrets
Searching
Looking for things and ordering things.
Traveling Routes
Patterns to optimize routes, schedules, and profits.
Suitcases & Backpacks
What is the best way to pack?
Games
What is the best strategy to win?
EVENT SCHEDULE, May 27th - June 31st, 2019
Monday
Activity
Best Friends
How to choose a best friend.
Activity
How to Maximize Happiness
How to live your life to maximize your happiness
Activity
Maximize seating preferences
Assigning Seats to Maximize Student Happiness
Activity
Project
Assigning Seats to Maximize Student Happiness
Tuesday
Activity
Keep secrets
How do you keep a secret?
Activity
Sharing secrets
How to share a secret without risk
Activity
Discover secrets
How to discover secrets
Activity
Project
Time dedicated to the project
Wednesday
Activity
Find Things
Fastest ways to find things
Activity
Sort things
Best ways to sort
Activity
Guessing Answers
Fastest way to guess an answer
Activity
Project
Time dedicated to the project
Thursday
Activity
School bus route
Shortest route that picks up all students
Activity
Shift schedule for resturant
Maximize good service and profit
Activity
Interview schedule
Optimize an interview schedule
Activity
Project
Time dedicated to the project
Friday
Activity
Game of Clue
Strategies to win the game of Clue
Activity
Packing a Suitcase
Packing a suitcase can be tricky, what is the best strategy?
Activity
Backpack
What is the best way to pack a backpack?
Activity
Project
Time dedicated to the project
THE TEAM
Meet the Team
Abel Sanchez
Founder
Silvia Vazquez
Faculty, Director of Talent
Oscar Sanchez
Co-Founder, Faculty, Course Software Architecture
Veronica Joyce Lin
Faculty, Director of Research
Iliana Ramirez
Director Mexico
Lwin Moe
Faculty, Director of Logistics
Pushpita Bhattacharjee
Faculty, Director of Strategy & Operations
Jorge Treviño
Director of Strategic Relationship Liaisons, Mexico
Kasturi Shah
Faculty, Director of Education & Recruitment
Instructors
Abigail Choe
Aliza Camacho
Becky Bell
Chessa Hoekstra
Daniela Ganelin
Donna Gan
Dorothy Sun
Emily Rogers
Erica Yuen
Erica Santana
Janelle Sands
Lwin Moe
Melody Cao
Navil Perez
Emma King
Nidhi Sharma
Nomi Vilvovsky
Olivia Siegel
Olivia Waring
Pankhuri Sen
Priya Kher
Pushpita Bhattacharjee
Randi Williams
R'mani Haulcy
Silvia Vazquez
Sophie Mori
Stephanie Hu
Veronica Lin
Alyssa Dayan
Heather Hausladen
Peniel Argaw
Kasturi Shah
Teaching Assistants
Alejandra Arriaga
Alejandra Savage Briz
Alejandra Velasco
Ana Lucía Rodríguez Hernández
Ana Robles
Anasofia Ordaz Estrada
Andrea Alejandra Mondragón Olivoss
Carolina Barreiro Valdez
Carolina Castañeda León
Carolina Jiménez Rossainz
Cinthya Rosasa Casanova
Daniela Abigaíl Parrales Mejía
Daniela Ortiz Bibriesca
Denise Enkerlin
Dianne Villicaña
Estefanía Botello Ramírez
Estefanía Pitol Martínez
Fatima del Rosario Arámbula Coronado
Fatima Ramirez
Gabriela María Garza Cantú
Gladys Garza Ortega
Jeanette Mosqued Cruz
Jenifer Alondra Romero Flores
Jessica Guadalupe Sánchez Martínez
Jessica Janeth Cisneros González
Karla Alejandra Pedroza Bonilla
Karla Esbeidy Zamora Ferniza
Karla Michelle Márquez Ruiz
Lizzeth Muñoz
Lourdes Beatriz Cajica Maceda
Maria Aracelia Alcorta Garcia
María Fernanda Pérez Rodríguez
María Inés Mendoza Rodríguez
Mariana Valdez Díaz
Mariana Delavega
Marijose Davila
Mirian del Carmen Hipólito García
Monserrat Navarrete
Natalia Serrano
Paola Garzon Villar
Sarahí Aguilar González
Sofía Durazo
Sofía Durazo Angulo
Sonia Ramírez Sánchez
Tabatha Tabeli Acosta Pastrana
Valeria Rodríguez Espinoza
Verónica Rodríguez Rico
Shareni Berenice Ortega Guerra
Karen Irasema Castañeda Sandoval
Alicia Torres Olascoaga
Paulette Raimond-Kedilhac Barba
PARTNERS
The beautiful patterns team would like to thank Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) for making this project possible.
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) (in English: Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or simply as Tec, is a private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus university based in Monterrey, Mexico. Founded in 1943 by industrialists in the city of Monterrey, ITESM has since grown to include 31 campuses in 25 cities throughout the country, becoming the most recognized in Latin America.
