My name is Mike Bycraft.
I am an international educator who specializes in design, robotics, engineering, and makerspaces. I am teaching robotics, design, and makerspace at the International School Bangkok, where I've worked since 2023. Before moving to Bangkok, I was working at Korea International School from 2015 to 2023.
Prior to moving internationally, I taught AP and IB sciences in the United States, in Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from 2006.
I have created design programs, makerspaces, and robotics curriculum for K-12 students.
I am interested in student directed classes, design thinking, tinkering, creating student focused makerspaces, microcomputers, laser cutting, and facilitating students using robotics.
My Learning2 Talk:
Weirdness is a Lot of Things
PIRE Research
My students were challenged to create a cardboard chair with no tape, glue or adhesives.
This space houses our design, digital fabrication, robotics, AP Comp sci, graphic design and yearbook classes.
This is the physical fabrication area and MS makerspace. Students from multiple grades use the room and tools. I also teacher my maker classes from this room.
A student testing their balsa wood bridge, 2016
My physics students built a 3 meter trebuchet, 2013
My students and I launched a GoPro, a gator, and a GPS into the stratosphere (120,000 ft), 2015
Teaching physics while laying on a bed of nails, 2014