BIRDEE is a collaboration between Georgia Tech's School of Biology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID), and Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC) to create socially relevant, accessible, and contextualized biologically-inspired design experiences through a research-backed curriculum intended for high school audiences.

BIRDEE's vision is to create socially relevant, accessible, highly-contextualized biologically-inspired design experiences that can be disseminated to high school audiences in Georgia and nationally. To do this, BIRDEE developed, implemented, and evaluated its standards-based biologically inspired design curriculum in high school engineering classes.