Jaymes Dec [email protected]

Jaymes Dec is the Director of Innovation for the Franklin School, a high school in Jersey City with a focus on personalized learning, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Previously, he was the Chair of Innovation and a technology teacher at the Marymount School of New York where he developed the first Fab Lab at an all-girls school. Jaymes is an Adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Creative Technologies Program and teaches creative coding classes at Dwight Global, an online independent school. After graduating from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, he served as the Program Manager at GreenFab, a National Science Foundation program for high school students from the South Bronx that taught science, technology, engineering, and math skills through classes on sustainable design and green technologies. Jaymes was named a “Teacher of the Future” by the National Association of Independent Schools and a Senior Fab Learn Fellow by Stanford University. He is the co-author of Make: Tech DIY: Easy Electronics Projects for Parents and Kids. Jaymes is also a co-founder of City Hunt, a special events company. Through City Hunt, he produced hundreds of team building and experiential entertainment events for clients in Europe, Asia, and North America.