About me
My name is Ólöf Hannesdóttir and I live in Neskaupstaður, a small town in the east of Iceland. The youngest of our four daughters is finishing her last year in highschool in Akureyri, so for the moment it's only me, my husband and our dog at our place. We are expecting our sixth grandchild in march.
30 years ago I studied sculpture in MHí, which later became the Icelandic University of the Arts.
Later I began teaching and studied pedagogy. I have been teaching arts and crafts in elementary school since 1998 and I graduated from the University of Iceland with a master´s degree in teaching arts & crafts in february 2024.
Ten years ago Fab Lab Austurland was opened in my hometown, Neskaupstaður, and I took some classes over the years. I got familiar with the vinyl cutter and the laser cutter. I began teaching groups from 7th grade in Fab Lab and enjoyed teaching there.
I started working as the manager for Fab Lab Austurland in the beginning of january 2024 and will be attending Fab Academy to fulfill my contract with my employer, Verkmenntaskóli Austurlands, which is a small secondary school in Neskaupstaður.
In fall 2024, I attended PreFab to prepare myself for Fab Academy in january 2025. This was the first time that Pre Fab Academy was held in Iceland. Svavar Konráðsson is my instructor and his collegues, Árni Björnsson, Andri Sæmundsson and Þórarinn Bjartur Breiðfjörð, assisted in the program. Frosti Gíslason is also an instructor in Fab Academy, but I could not find the Fab Academy site for Frosti, so I linked Fab Lab Vestmannaeyjar to his name.
the Icelandic instructors in Fab Academy work as a team, so I can ask all of the instructors for assistance if needed, and they are all very helpful. Here is my Pre-Fab documentation website. Since Pre-Fab included doing some of the Fab Academy assignments in advance, I will be using some of the documentation on this Fab Academy website and add more information when necessary.
Here you can find my Student Agreement, which I have signed and uploaded to my repository.