Lopez is currently a Professor of the Practice for REACH University and teaches a variety of advanced CS courses including CS 300, introducing students to core concepts and practices common to state and national standards, and CS 221 and 231, which are Teacher Education Preparation courses for the state of California. Lopez brings experiences with project management from the LISTEN LAB and Coding Our Future projects at CREATE, UC San
Diego. He served on the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) Board of Directors,
was President of the CSTA-San Diego chapter, and is currently on the steering committee for the CSTA LatinX Affinity Group. Lopez’ career as a former high school CS teacher includes being selected by the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Program to be a pilot teacher for the AP CS Principles course funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), curriculum writer, instructional designer, and an AP Summer Institute professional development (PD) consultant. He has been an NSF proposal reviewer and was selected as a committee member for the California CS State Standards committee. Lopez has also worked on the NSF funded project for the CSAwesome Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) and on an Education Innovation Research (EIR) project funded by the U.S. Department of Education to develop the CS+Elementary curriculum. Art is a leading subject matter expert on BootUp’s PD implementation plan to expand access to the CS+Elementary curriculum.