Contributors

Brandon Prentice

Brandon Prentice is a fabrication teacher and instructional coach for the Trinity-Area School District, located in southwestern Pennsylvania.  He is a graduate of California University of Pennsylvania, earning his BS and MEd in Technology Education. A major part of his duties at Trinity-Area School District is to oversee operations and professional development of the fabrication labs, virtual lab classrooms, and other technology programs. Fab Academy Graduate 2017

Fab Foundation

Our mission is to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything, and thereby creating opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods around the world.

Rich Lehrer

Teresa Lampe

Teresa Sappington Lampe is the STEM Coordinator for the Lamar County School District
in Purvis, MS. Lampe wrote the grant for and oversees the 21st Century Community Learning Center program which provides afterschool tutoring, STEM, and makerspace programming in five middle school libraries. She also trains and oversees the implementation of Project Lead the Way Launch and Picture-Perfect STEM in K-5 classrooms. She additionally serves as the 3-8th grade science curriculum coach.

Lampe previously taught Engineering and Robotics at the Lamar County Center for Technical Education (LCCTE) in Purvis, MS. She was also a science teacher at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, MS; Sturgis High School in Sturgis, MS; and Brookhaven High School in Brookhaven, MS. Her science teaching experience includes physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, engineering and research. Additionally, Lampe served as the Outreach Coordinator for the College of Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU).

Lampe served in the U. S. House of Representatives, Congressional Maker Caucus as a 2015-2016 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow. Lampe achieved National Board Certification in 2008 and renewal in 2018. She earned a Masters in Science Education and a Bachelors in Chemistry-Physics Education from Mississippi State University.

Lampe has extensive experience training teachers and students in robotics, CAD (Solidworks and Tinkercad), 3D printing, laser engraving, microelectronics, robotics, and CNC machining.

Lampe serves her local maker community as the Chairperson of the Hattiesburg (MS) Maker
Faire Committee and President of Hub City Makers.

David Taylor

Ryan Moreno

Ryan Moreno is a father of 3, and Administrator/S.T.E.M. Educator at REM Learning Center. REM is an NAEYC accredited school focused on early childhood education and former Maker Corps Host Site in Miami Florida. Ryan earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from FIU and holds an Advanced Florida Director’s Credential. In 2005, during a summer research opportunity at NASA’s KSC, Ryan became aware of the shortage of graduates in S.T.E.M. fields, and felt he could help close the gap from an early age. He has been doing S.T.E.A.M. activities with children ever since. As co-creator and the School Fab Lab Manager for the Play Make Share program, he helps create opportunities for children of all ages and backgrounds in the community to Play, Make, and Share. Ryan has collaborated on the topic of Making in early childhood education with the local science museum, local and national organizations, and co-presented at regional and national conferences.

Melvin LaPrade

Melvin W. LaPrade, Consultant Fab Foundation’s SCOPES-DF project, Melvin founded the National Urban Research Group (NURG) when he was a Ph.D. Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning. In the beginning, NURG conducted research and policy analysis on mortgage lending discrimination and the origins of the subprime financial crisis. The vision of NURG has extended to advance data-driven research through multiple perspectives, with particular concentration to the impact of public policy on community development, social justice and learning opportunity equity across formal and informal K-16 educational platforms.

Brent Richardson

Nettrice Gaskins

Dr. Nettrice Gaskins has worked for several years in K-12 and post-secondary education, community media and technology before receiving a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. She has focused on the application of cultural art and technologies in STEAM learning for underrepresented ethnic groups in public schools in the United States and around the world. Dr. Gaskins is the assistant director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University. She is on the board of directors of Artisans Asylum in Somerville, MA and the Making Spaces advisory board in the United Kingdom. Dr. Gaskins has also received funding from the National Science Foundation for Advancing STEM Through Culturally Situated Arts-Based Learning. She has lectured around the world about equity, access and inclusion in STEAM. Her book, “Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation” will be published by The MIT Press in mid-2021.

Brian Purvis

Brian is the former Manager of Instruction for the GE Brilliant Career Lab, a curriculum centered mobile FAB Lab that served Boston area public high schools.  Previously he led the Gilbert Innovation Hub, where he leveraged his 18 years as a public school STEM educator to open an integrated maker space at the heart of a Title 1 STEM elementary school.  During his career he has also started an equity centered youth leadership organization, worked to train new teachers at the collegiate level and provided professional development on inquiry based instructional techniques.  Brian is passionate about leveraging digital fabrication technology to enhance and transform traditional K-12 education. Currently he leads BKB Education Consulting, specializing in creating immersive yet practical classroom experiences for all subject areas.  He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee. 

Aidan Mullaney

Brandi Dixon

Brandi Dixon is the Education Program Manager for the Hardesty Center for Fab Lab Tulsa, a charitable organization located in the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which began as an outreach program from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and has grown into a global network providing widespread community access to modern digital fabrication equipment, tools and resources.  Ms. Dixon researches, directs and designs the curricula, education materials and teaching processes of the organizations STEM education programs, which serve 4,500 students annually across Northeastern Oklahoma. In addition, she trains teachers in the development and implementation of STEM based curricula. Previously, Ms. Dixon was a Senior Corps Member with City Year Tulsa, an AmeriCorps program serving youth in high-poverty areas, and she holds a degree in graphic design.

David Vanzant

Kim Stanley

Ainsley Buckner

Ainsley Buckner graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011 with a B.F.A in General Fine Arts, concentration in Sculpture and Print Making. She is currently the Prototyping Manager at Sears think[box] of Case Western Reserve University. think[box] is a center for innovation and entrepreneurship that provides a space for anyone – students, faculty, and alumni and members of the community – to tinker and creatively invent. Prior to working at think[box] Ainsley worked at Progressive Arts Alliance, a non-profit organization providing arts-integration programming in the Cleveland Public schools with a focus on STEM and project-based learning. She believes integrating art and science through collaboration and making helps build and strengthen community

Supriya (Vigyan Ashram)

Namaste, I am Supriya Kadam.I am electronics engineer and done Fab academy in 2016.I am working in Vigyan Ashram from . Here I am managing Do It Yourself lab (Maker space) and working for new technology development. Vigyan Ashram focuses on rural technology development and education. Vigyan Ashram wants to achieve ‘Development through Education and Education through Development’. 

I enjoy my work as a STEM educator and as a technologist.

ZACHARY MCCOY

Sue Williamson

Dr. Sue Williamson has been a classroom educator for 17 years and has a   Doctorate in Educational Administration from Georgia Southern University.
Sue spent 13 years in Georgia as a gifted endorsed teacher of middle grades english/ language arts, social studies and mathematics as well as high school mathematics. Her strong interest in differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all students led her to co-create and lead a professional development course for middle and high school regular and special education teachers on differentiation and collaboration in the co teaching classroom.
Currently a teacher at STEM School Chattanooga, Sue has collaborated to create and implement cross curricular and single subject Problem Based Learning units of study. She has also facilitated professional learning of PBL for district wide teachers. Her strong interest in encouraging other educators to grow in their field has led to her participation in the Hamilton County Schools Teacher Think Tank, an innovative initiative to develop a more impactful system of professional learning and
teacher recognition.

Colin Christy

Corey Rice

High School Science and Engineering teacher for 10 years. 2017 Fab Academy Graduate. Science Olympiad Coach. Active and relentless builder of things and relationships.

Jessica Nielsen

Jessica is a native Texan with a passion for inspiring future STEM and STEAM leaders. Her education foundation is in fine art and she is an enthusiastic artist and maker. She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology in 2015 and began working in mental health as an administrator but realized that art and technology conservation was her calling and made a career switch in 2018. Jessica has over six years of experience educating and working with families and K-12 children. 

Jessica began volunteering with Fab Lab Houston in July 2018. She joined the Fab Lab Houston Team in December 2018 as Education Assistant, leading student workshops and field trips, facilitating professional development, training students to safely use equipment and delivering outreach with the mobile Fab Lab unit.

Jessica thrives on sharing her knowledge and skills with others and is excited to be part of the maker movement.

Cristina Olivotto

Onl’Fait is an open educational technological maker space, where everybody – artisans, children, artists, curious – is welcome to learn, make, share, fix, create, discuss, teach, fail and tinker.

Matt Zigler

I am a teacher, artist, and maker. I am currently the Bullis Innovation and Technology Lab (BITlab) Coordinator at Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland. In this role, I work with students and teachers to bring design thinking and the Maker process into traditional content area classes, teach Maker related classes, and oversee a state of the art Makerspace and Fab Lab. I have presented on how to design and build a Makerspace that meets the needs of your school, how to create a culture of Making and innovation, and how to develop Maker programming for all levels of ability, K-12. The school Maker movement and K-12 Fab Labs foster creative problem solving, collaboration skills, technology and innovation skills, and an understanding of what it takes to make ideas into reality. These are the skills that students graduating today will need in the 21st-century jobs of tomorrow that haven’t even been created yet.

I hold a Master’s degree in Fine Arts and taught art in a variety of schools before starting my first Makerspace. I have taught at small and large schools, schools for students with learning disabilities, and traditional private schools. I have built a Makerspace on a budget of $10,000 and one on a budget of $100,000. No matter the size of the space or the number of tools, the learning that takes place in a Makerspace or Fab Lab can be life-changing for many students.

Jean-Luc Pierite

Jean-Luc currently is the International Procurement and Logistics Manager for The Fab Foundation. He is also a complementary Community Manager for fablabs.io. Outside of The Fab Foundation, Jean-Luc currently serves as President of the Board of Directors for the North American Indian Center of Boston. He also serves as a Community Linguist on the Advisory Circle for CoLang for the period 2016-20. The Institute on Collaborative Language Research or “CoLang” is designed to provide an opportunity for community language activists and linguists to receive training in community-based language documentation and revitalization. Jean-Luc also contributes to the Tunica Language Project which is a collaboration with Tulane University in New Orleans and the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana. For Tunica-Biloxi, Jean-Luc serves on the tribal Constitution Committee

Jean-Luc has a B.A. in Humanities with a co-major in Mass Communication and Japanese from Dillard University in New Orleans. He also earned an A.S. in Video Game Design from Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. Jean-Luc’s previous positions include: Internet Marketing Specialist for Mohegan Sun, and Graphic Artist for Paragon Casino Resort. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Jean-Luc now resides in Jamaica Plain, Masachusetts.

CITC Fab Lab

We are Cook Inlet Tribal Council’s Fabrication Lab. We are based out of Anchorage Alaska serving Alaska Native and American Indian students based in the Anchorage school district. We teach design, building, and fabrication with a cultural emphasis. Our different grants serve different age ranges of students, helping to promote their full science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics potential. Through creative exploration and experimentation processes, our students are discovering the skills they’ll need as Alaska’s next generation of engineers, designers, artists and innovators. With the help from our Fab Lab Instructors, students have been using the Fab Lab to build traditional model kayaks, light up drums, light up dance fans and so much more. Our unique teams comes from very diverse backgrounds, helping stitch all of the components necessary to make this a great place to learn, grow, and fabricate!

John Kopp

Michelle Voithofer

Kevin McKee

Kevin McKee is a certified teacher in secondary mathematics as well as special education.  He attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) to obtain his degree.  He currently works as a teacher in the IU1 Fab Lab at Colonial where he facilitates groups of students to dream, design, and create projects using state of the art technology.  He is a devoted teacher and enjoys spending time with his wife and two children when he is not working in the lab.

LISA BOLUS

Education:
Florida Southern College: Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, Minor in Journalism, and Teaching Certification in Secondary Education: 1995

Experience:
STEM School Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN: English I, Yearbook Adviser: 2013 – Present
Loftis Middle School, Hixson, TN: 6th Grade Language Arts: 2013
Southeast High School, Bradenton, FL: English I-IB, English I Honors, English I: 2000
George Jenkins High School, Lakeland, FL: English I, Journalism I-IV, High School Newspaper Adviser: 1998 – 2000
Santa Fe Catholic High School, Lakeland, FL: 7th Grammar and Literature, 8th Grammar and Literature, 9th Grammar and Literature, English II Honors, English IV, Speech and Debate, Junior High Newspaper Adviser: 1995 – 1998

I grew up in Bradenton, Florida, close to the Gulf Coast beaches. My family moved to Soddy Daisy in 2005, and I am still fascinated by the season changes. Since 1995, I have taught everything from 6th to 12th grade English, including Journalism I-IV, but 9th grade has always been my favorite! When I’m not at school, I love to read, watch movies, and go hiking with my husband and our three children.

Joe Evans

ERIN JAYNES

JEFFREY CHRISTOPHER

Nicelle Price-Gray

ASHLEY POLK

Shannon Seigle

Patrick Dean

Rebecca Ottinger

Sharon Leon

Kelly Hurn

I am the Education Manager at Fab Lab Houston

Randall Ohman

RiverValley XuanYuan

Located in the cradle of Chinese civilization – Xinzheng, the hometown of Xuanyuan empire , xuanyuan Vale is committed to integrating the open, inclusive and win-win ideas of Chinese civilization and creative ideas of open source and cooperation, and conveying this combination to everyone. who is willing to turn ideas into reality.

We build laboratories which satisfy a variety of innovative manufacturing, and attract more Maker Teams to participate in the revolution of creativity, design, and manufacturing to solve various problems and challenges in real life.

We hope to share modern intelligent tools and open source software to more people, especially the design, improvement and manufacturing related to 3D printing.

We are using a open and innovative way of thinking to change the way that people think about problems, and firmly believe that technology leads the future. We believe that the Makers will change the world, and innovation labs are the place to nurture this new concept.

We will build Maker spaces more Vitality and creativity, embrace and learn the latest ideas and technologies and share them with more people.

We are committed to integrating the open, inclusive and win-win ideas of Chinese civilization and creative ideas of open source and cooperation, and conveying this combination to everyone.

MICHELLE BETTIS

My name is Michelle Bettis and I currently serve as Instructional Coach for two district high schools.  I consider being the mother of three amazing children, Andrew (19), Blake (11) and Lila (10) to be my greatest accomplishment. My children and I are members of Ooltewah United Methodist Church. Following high school graduation, I earned a Bachelor’s in Multidisciplinary School Learning from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In 2000, I received my Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from Tusculum College in Greenville, TN.  In 2018, I founded the district-wide girls coding organization, Gig City Girls. 2019 marks my 18th year in education.  As President of the Ms. Wheelchair Tennessee organization, I love supporting my sister and her mission to educate the world about wheelchair users.  In my free time, I enjoy spending time with friends and family, raising backyard chickens, and photographing waterfalls. The beach is my favorite place to relax and recharge!

Terri Willingham

I’m Executive Director of the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, a Tampa based nonprofit dedicated to supporting academic achievement, economic development and the spirit of innovation through inspiring programs and active learning projects. I am a writer by trade, the author of two books on health, co-author of Makerspaces in Libraries (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and author of the new book, Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) , and also work as a creative partner with Eureka Factory, a consulting and educational event production company. I believe strongly in the value of collaboration and the strength of mentor-based learning, through which I work to build capacity in client agencies and constituents. I have more than 30 years of social entrepreneurship experience across a diverse spectrum of fields and interests, all focused on doing work I’m passionate about in a way that I hope makes my corner of the world a little better for the community with whom I share it.

Fab Lab El Paso

DIY lab Vigyan Ashram

DIY lab is an innovative way of learning space where the learning methodology is research based. It encourages the students to solve their own day to day life challenges by applying their ideas with guidance of subject experts and using the tools to develop required technology.

Thomas Oliva

Carla Penn-Hopson

Sheryl Sotelo

David Williams

KELSEY OLIVER

Harry Akligoh

Harry Akligoh works by educating and training young students between the
ages of 9 years to 16 years through the 4 STEM labs called Prac-science
Lab he established used by 6 schools in his local Ghanaian community in
Kumasi. Harry leads his team to develop contemporary learning lessons
which enable students in their labs to fabricate their own science tools
for their experiments in biology, chemistry, and physics.

Ilaria La Manna

Digital Architect graduated in Rome, 2010 Master Degree in Advanced Architecture at IAAC and Bioacademy graduate 2015.  

Interest into investigation and research of experimental materials and new bio-materials for Architecture shapes and fabrication system, in different cities.

Since 2014 Cofounder of Fab Lat Kids, developing educational methodology of technology for kids, and also she dedicated to teaching new technologies in different University.

Now in Doha city as a Education specialist working for a new project, with the goal of involve the network from different cities interested in education and technologies. 

Danny Smith

Tina Kovach

Noah Rasor

Fab Lab Yucatán

Fab lab Yucatán, which is created from the opportunity to participate in a social change and an open economic model that places innovation as the engine of social transformation, is the first open laboratory for research, experimentation and technological development dedicated to create technology-based solutions promoting urban innovation based on shared knowledge, collaborative work, social innovation, sustainability and digital manufacturing.

Matteo Viscogliosi

Born in Atina, a small town in the Apennines, I have always shown great interest in the details that make up and characterize a space, hence the will to challenge myself with the study of architecture. I attended the Faculty of Construction Engineering Architecture of Aquila for two years, acquiring a range of knowledge that later led me to enroll at the European Institute of Design. During my studies I attended Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, experimenting different methodologies of approach to design, ranging from interior design to product design. Today my cultural background allows me to work well in a team, and to formulate conceptual and design hypotheses. I have been collaborating with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale since 2017 both as the manager of the Fablab-InnovationGym, responsible for exhibit and product design as well, and as the tutor of the Phyrtual Innovation Gym.

Basel Al Muree

fablabteka La kalle

Somos una asociación sin ánimo de lucro que apoya el desarrollo integral de personas en riesgo y / o exclusión social en el barrio de Vallecas en Madrid (España), desde 1986.

Tom Anto

Martin Oloo

I am a co-founder and Managing Director of Fablab Winam. The Fablab based in Western region of Kenya and is independently based but freely collaborates with Learning Institutions and companies.

I have a background in Social Work and Digital Fabrication. My Fablab has capabilities of Laser cutting, Vynil cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing and PCB milling. We have a fully functional electronic bench. Among our staff are Mechatronics Engineers, Electronics Engineer, Lab Technician among others

Amy Beaulisch

Durmuş Sabuncu

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Dhruv Saidava

Mariona Cíller 🦊

Fernando Daguanno

Marilia Baquerizo

Felipe Laranja

Felipe is an instructor of Firjan SENAI, working with professional training and educational projects in the areas of industrial automation, creativity and innovation. SENAI’s 809 mobile and fixed operational units throughout Brazil receive more than 2.5 million applications for around 3 thousand courses that prepare workers for 28 industrial areas. He is also currently the Fablab guru of the Casa Firjan, is a Senai flagship unit focused on innovation, new economy and future studies. There, he also works as a facilitator in the development of prototypes using digital manufacturing and electronics.

Edmundo Reyes

Regiane Pupo

Regiane Pupo is an architect and has a doctorate in Civil Engineering from UNICAMP – University of Campinas, in Brazil.

Currently a teacher at Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, Brazil, her major interests involve digital fabrication tools applied to Industrial Design and Architecture. Since 2013, RegiPupo has established PRONTO3D NetWork, a series of four digital fabrication labs, spread throughout Santa Catarina State, South of Brazil. The activities within the labs hold teaching, research and extension programs, for graduate as well as undergraduate students.

Extension programs are workshops called PRONTOKIDS (k-12 schools), PRONTOTEEN (teenagers) and PRONTOSENIOR (adults) that concern all interests and audiences.

Alejandra Díaz de León Lastras

Jennifer Mitchell

Kristin Burrus

I have been a teacher in Hamilton County Schools since 1998. Throughout my career have been a science teacher in 7th -12th grade and facilitated a K-12 VW eLab for two years. I started at STEM School in 2019 and in 2020 the Global Center for Digital Innovation will open as a collaborative effort between HCS, Chattanooga State, and STEM School. This state of the art facility will be the only K-14 digital fabrication center in existence.

Kuenga Palden

Kuenga Palden is currently working in Fablab Bhutan as AR/VR developer. He is experienced in 3D animation and also trained in Unity and Maya. His primary role in Fablab is to design and create AR/VR. He also develops Android AR apps for teachers and students. 

Miguel Valenzuela

Miguel Valenzuela is a California Registered Civil Engineer, maker, and the inventor of PancakeBot.  Miguel currently runs the PancakeBot Innovation Center and Makerspace in Vestfossen Norway, a space dedicated to art and cultural centric innovation with a tasty twist.

Miguel’s family is works closesly with Miguel to tell the PancakeBot story as well as inspire others to explore the world and make.

Studio 5

Michele Turco

Katy Perry

Schenectady School District Brilliant Careers Mobile Fab Lab Coordinator, STEAM Mentor, and Science Teacher
Schenectady NY, USA

Kevin Carpenito

Sarah Boussaa

Sam Goodrich

Zaid Abusini

Zaid Abusini is an Electronics Engineer from Yarmouk university specialist in Electronics design (PCB and hardware) in addition to programming and prototyping. he joined the FAB-LAB Irbid team, Microsoft (Trainer), and worked as a freelancer designer for PCB and prototyping projects. Meanwhile, he is working in ICT maker space in Qatar ( MOTC ) as an Edu_Tech Engineer ( Assistant ). 

Oyedotun (Oye)

Luis Mayorga

Caitlin Gonzalez

Eighth grade general science teacher at the Salemwood School in Malden, Ma.

Laura Degelmann

Mileidy Martins

I was born on 20th of September, in Valencia, Venezuela.
In 2006 I studied at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy through the Erasmus program.
In 2007 I obtained a degree in Interior and Equipment Design at Polytechnic of Castelo Branco – ESART – Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas of Castelo Branco, Portugal.
In 2017 I obtained a Master’s Degree in Communication and Multimedia from the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Since that I’ve been working as designer in Spain and Portugal where I’ve been managing and producing various projects related to communication and multimedia design.

Cameron Bass

Raushanah Muhammad

artur coelho

Pablo Zuloaga

Award-winning Colombian Creative Director, University Professor and Audiovisual Producer, with a MA in Design for Emergent Futures, based in Barcelona.

With more than 15 years creating ideas, campaigns, products, services, and Innovations for brands and NGOs around the globe, Pablo started his career working in a TV channel in Colombia where he produced and directed different TV shows, then he started working at Mullen Lowe SSP3 (Colombias most awarded agency), were he quickly became Creative Director, and some of his work was awarded in the most important creativity festivals.

I moved to Guatemala in 2016 to work as GREY General Creative Director for almost four years, and retired to follow his dreams and do an MA in Design for Emergent Futures in Barcelona, and he is also getting the Fab Academy certification from the MIT Center of Bits and Atoms, and their “Academy of How to make (almost) anything”.

3minutes

Rafael Sol

Meghan Singleton

Natalia Brennan

Wendy Marrero

Andrea Fields

Andrea has been making and teaching in fab labs and other innovation spaces since she was 15 years old. She has a master’s degree in civil engineering and currently manages an early childhood fab lab and her own consultancy. She is a sought after speaker and spokesperson for minority women in STEM. Her speaking engagements have included the Ohio State Senate,TEDxCLE, and U.S. News and World Report.

Jean-Luc Pierite

Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Jean-Luc now resides in Jamaica Plain. Prior to his election to the North American Indian Center of Boston Board of Directors, Jean-Luc was also elected to the Community Linguist seat of the Advisory Circle for CoLang for the period 2016-20. The Institute on Collaborative Language Research or “CoLang” is designed to provide an opportunity for community language activists and linguists to receive training in community-based language documentation and revitalization. Currently, Jean-Luc volunteers with his Tribe’s Language and Culture Revitalization Program which is a collaboration with Tulane University in New Orleans. This program is based on tradition passed from Jean-Luc’s great-grandfather Joseph Alcide Pierite, Sr., last traditional chief and medicine man of the Tunica-Biloxi. The Tribe is an amalgamation of members from the Central Louisiana communities of: Tunica, Biloxi-Choctaw, Ofo, and Avoyel.

Joseph Dowd

Gino Colantuono

Desmond Hearne Morrey

Desmond is a student at Oberlin College with a major in philosophy and planned minors in creative writing and mathematics. He is interested in alternative educational forms and particularly finding alternatives for test and memorization based math education. Desmond is currently living in Columbia South Carolina with his partner and is an intern at the Fab Foundation. 

Bert Stoker

English Teacher

Maureen Quigley

Talia Greenberg

Jessica Brennan

Tyler Andrade

Tebble Dickerson

Abigail McCune

Abigail McCune is an Education Consultant for the Fab Foundation. Abigail’s work encompasses managing and supporting the FF educational outreach project SCOPES-DF and the associated website, content development, engagement and outreach, and strategic program planning. She is also a STEM Instructor for the educational Fab Lab in the Carnegie Science Center located in Pittsburgh, PA.

Roberto Delgado

DFRobot Edu

Cornilius Nelson

OCHOLA GWADA

Duaa Alaali

Hello there! 

I’m a curriculum developer with a love for technology. I am currently working in Fab Lab Bahrain as a fab lab manger and curriculum developer. 

I hold a bachelors of electronics engineering and I enjoy trying new things and creating. I am a technical Instructor, training coordinator and most importantly a technology enthusiast.

Aaditi Kharade

Hello World,

I am Aaditi Kharade,I have completed my B.E.in Electronics & Telecommunication in 2015. I have joined Vigyan Ashram,Pabal to improve my knowledge and confidence by doing things hands on.I like to do innovative things,I have learning attitude. I belive that updation in ourselves with your growing era makes your life peaceful……

Noor Mohamed

Physics graduate, educational content creator and STEM educator. 

Fauziah Abd Razak

I am currently teaching the KS1, KS2 and KS3 students the Computing subject at Invictus International School, Johor, Malaysia. I have been teaching since 2009 in various curriculum such as Cambridge IGCSE, IB and IPC.

Chaik Haw Ren

Rachel Gibson

Chris Ludwig

Megan Pee

Mark Ng

Mar Sánchez

Design technology teacher.

Sari Jylhä-Ollila

Jyoti Rajaram

Ani Bejanyan

Juha Pöykkö

Priaadhashini s

I am a science and mathematics  middle school teacher. I teach IGCSE and A Levels Biology.

I enjoy having hands on lessons as well as lessons which provide a safe space for student growth and development .

I believe in learning by doing and strongly advocate the usage of models for learning.

There definitely should be joy in learning.

Hema Kasavan

Mar Sánchez

Design technology teacher.

Jo Watts

Anahit Apinyan

Anahit Apinyan graduated from the "Foreign Languages" department of the Faculty of Philology of Vanadzor State Pedagogical Institute. 2007-2012 worked as an English language teacher at School No. 20 in Vanadzor. In 2012, she became Edmund S. Winner of the Muskie Scholarship Program for an opportunity to study at Minnesota State University's Master's Program in Educational Technology. In parallel with her studies, she worked at the "Academic Technologies" center of the same university. Within the framework of the "Excel" program, she cooperated with the public schools of the Mankato region.

In 2019, she participated in the TESOL Methodology English teacher training course at the University of Maryland and successfully completed it. She also participated in the TOEFL Test Preparation course initiated by ETS (Educational Testing Service) and received a certificate. In January-March 2022, she participated in the Future English Teacher Development 11-week course organized by the British Council with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture and received a certificate of completion. Since 2014, she has been working at Dilijan Central School as an English teacher. Since 2022 she is performing the duties of DCS Deputy Director.

Iiris Kivioja

David Prieto

SIVA SHAN

Zulema Josa

Architect, designer and technology teacher.

Suhas Labade

komal raut

Pieter Verduijn

Born in the Netherlands, Pieter Verduijn is a multilingual educator with 18 years of work experience in Dutch, Aruban, and American education systems.

His colleagues refer to him as the “Jack of all trades” as he combines his talents in creating and implementing STEAM lessons in his makerspace for each student’s interests from 1st to 12th grade.

Pieter has also been teaching Science and Social Studies in the GED program for Adult Education in Aruba and Social Studies for Middle School. Pieter Verduijn has a Bachelor’s Degree in Childhood Education and Behavioral Sciences as well as an extensive 3D-printed Star Wars collection.

Theresa Montenarello

I began my journey as an international educator in Peace Corps Thailand, where my interest in cultivating world citizens peaked. I continued my teaching career at the International School of Aruba where I have taught both secondary mathematics and third grade incorporating hands-on, collaborative experiences.

I partner with my husband to cultivate a maker culture on the island of Aruba through our initiative called Makerpedia. Our goal is to instill a maker mindset in Aruba’s youth, empower young girls, and create meaningful learning experiences in the education system.

tshering wangzom

Tshering Wangzom is a lab manager and engineer at Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Super Fablab. She has Bachelor in Electronics and Communications and MSc. in Networking and telecommunication. She is in charge of managing the lab and also developing and running Training programs in the lab. She is currently working on machines that make projects in the lab. Her professional interest lies in electronics circuit designing and programming, machine building, CAD software, digital fabrication tools and also teaching. She is also very much interested in learning about new emerging technologies. She has work experience as a trainer/lecturer at Technical Training Institute and as a visiting Lecture at her University before joining the JNWSFL.

Nathan Pritchett

I am the Executive Director of the Hardesty Center for Fab Lab Tulsa, a non-profit makerspace located in the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma that provides education, community, workforce and business programming that teaches innovation, design-thinking, problem-solving and change-making, together with open access to 21st Century digital fabrication tools, equipment and technology.

Beverley Wild

I am a Design and Technology Teacher, from Perth Western Australia. I enjoy making anything and everything. 

Nawal Abdul Kareem

Ben Kusserow