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

Course & Classroom Overview

Teaching Staff

Activities Snippets

Having Fun - Beats & Singing

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.