What is the Fab Academy Program?

The Fab Academy is a fast paced, hands-on learning experience where students learn rapid-prototyping by planning and executing a new project each week, resulting in a personal portfolio of technical accomplishments. It offers a distributed rather than distance educational model, students learn in local workgroups, with peers, mentors, and machines, which are then connected globally by content sharing and video for interactive classes. Fab Academy runs in more than 70 Fab Labs, for more than 250 students per year in the largest campus of the world. Fab Academy Program is part of the Academany, the Academy of Almost Anything.

My story with Fab Academy

So I have been working with 3D printers, Laser cutters, CNC router and other rapid prototyping techniques. But I have always explored these tools only to the requirements of my specific jobs and have never explored the full potential of these machines. And that's when FabAcademy came into the picture for me Fab Academy seems to be the best platform for exploring these tools and other relevant upskilling to be done in a much better way.

Fab Instructor at riidl

So our sole instructor from riidl FABLAB is Mr. Amit Yadav

Massive support from Vigyan Ashram Pune Node

So, throughout my course, along with Mr. Amit Yadav from riidl, I got immense help and support from Ms. Pradnya Shindekar from Vifyan Ashram Pune

The Boss

Prof. Neil Gershenfeld founded Fab Labs and Fab Academy. He is the Director of MIT’s Centre for Bits and Atoms

Going through the Fab Academy course

Personally, I have had hard time in my initial days of the course to go through various useful links relevant for the course. So I decided to have everything marked on my home page for convinience.

Fab Academy Homepage

Schedule 2023

Fab Academy students