Workshops

I have designed, developed, led and co-led many workshops in which people learn to build and creative with technologies and more basic materials. The following is a partial list of these creativity-focused workshops:

  • Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA, September 2017
    “Open Data/Open Minds” teacher professional development workshop for Monterey Bay Aquarium teacher cohort.
  • Context Conference, CMU Robotics Institute’s CREATE Lab at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, September, 2017
    “Open Data/Open Minds” teacher professional development workshop for conference attendees including Fluency Project teacher cohort.
  • University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, June 2017
    “Open Data/Open Minds” professional development for Notre Dame Center for STEM Education teacher cohort. 
  • University of Pittsburgh Department of Education, Pittsburgh PA, July 2017
    “Open Data/Open Minds” teacher professional development workshop for Western Pennsylvania Writing Project teacher cohort.
  • University of Pittsburgh Department of Education, Pittsburgh PA, July 2017
    “Open Data/Open Minds” teacher professional development workshop for the CMU Robotics Institute’s Create Lab Fluency Project cohort.
  • Manylabs, San Francisco, CA, February 2017
    “Open Data/Open Minds” teacher professional development workshop for the CMU Robotics Institute’s Create Lab Fluency Project cohort.
  • The Tech Museum, San Jose, CA, January 2017
    "Open Data/Open Minds” teacher professional development workshop for Notre Dame Center for STEM Education teacher cohort.
  • Manylabs, San Francisco and National Writing Project, Berkeley CA, April 2016
    “Open Data/Open Minds Design Conversation” workshop for project advisors.
    Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August 2010
    “Ejewels” workshop for inaugural Community Day. 
  • Jonah Clarke Middle School, Lexington Massachusetts, September 2006 - June 2007
    School year-long afterschool Scratch Programming Club. 
  • SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2006
    “Educational, Robotics: The Next Generation” for conference participants.
  • Computer Clubhouse Teen Summit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2006
    Week-long “Understanding Community” for international youth conference.
  • Interaction Design for Children (IDC) Conference, Boulder, Colorado, June 2005
    “Creating Electronic Craft Experiences for Children” workshop.
  • Highlands & Islands Enterprise "Digital Future" Conference, Aviemore, Scotland, May 2006
    “AskMobi” workshop for youth invited to national conference.
  • The LEAD program, Hong Kong, May 2005 
    “Robotics with Crickets and RCX” workshop for national youth conference.
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's Summer Design Institute, New York, August 2004
    “Light, Color and Interaction: Designing Playful Inventions and Explorations with Crickets” for designers and educators.Annual Conference of ACADIA at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 2004“Responsive Environments: Light, Color and Interaction” and “Fabrication Charrette.” 
  • Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, September 2002
    “Playing with Light Workshop” for invited artists and technologists. 
  • The Ark, Dublin, Ireland, August 2002
    Two-week “Ejewels” workshop.
  • The Ark, Dublin, Ireland, August 2002
    One-week “Situated Journalism” workshop.
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