About

Hiya.

I am a primary educator by training and a creative-type at heart. In my work with students in the classroom and in informal learning environments over the past decade, I've becoming increasingly interested in harnessing children's innate creativity and curiousity to engage them in design, engineering, and programming.

I've worked with students both across the globe- in Brighton, England; Majuro and Ailinglaplap, Marshall Islands, and Beijing, China, as well as in the greater Boston area. For five years I managed and led out-of-school-time education programs at a local Boys & Girls Club youth center for elementary and middle school students parterning with Boston universities and museum insitutions to offer STEM activities and skill-building including block-based coding, digital storytelling, robotics, and engineering design. I then moved back into the formal classroom, teaching elementary science, engineering, and coding at Tsinghua International School in Beijing. When I returned to the US over a year ago I split my working hours as a middle school science teacher, entrepreneurship instructor and makerspace coordinator. It was here that I decided it was time to take a leap from tradition classroom teaching to something more akin to the Fab Lab model (for a young audience). I'm here to learn how to make and how to support young learners in their design and making.