Press, Media & Links

My high school design class was recently featured by MakeyMakey on their blog

https://makeymakey.com/blogs/blog/design-thinking-game-controllers-and-adaptive-technology-michael-bycraft

My classroom and work is featured on LEGO Education

Here's the link

My middle school robotics classes were featured on Reuters' News.

Students build robo-arm for robotics teacher | Reuters VideoAmerican teacher Michael Bycraft is encouraging aspiring roboticists at a school in South Korea using LEGO's education-focused construction kits.

Here is a better link to the report above: https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRCV007BIB

Article

I published an article in Hello World, Raspberry Pi's Education magazine in May, 2019. It's about a fantastic student project that exemplifies our Design & Innovation Program

Selected Press, Videos, and Articles about my students, programs, and work

Israeli competition challenges safe-cracking skills of 4 Clark County school teamsCall them either Bycraft’s Five or a reincarnation of the Hole in the Wall gang, but a team of four juniors and one senior from Green Valley High School are ready to crack some safes. Science…

Las Vegas Review Journal, February 27th, 2015

KIS nourishes design thinking in classLast week, seventh and eighth grade engineering students from Korea International School finally tested how much weight their bridges could withstand after weeks-long efforts to construct them through real-world engineering techniques. In a departure from the traditional method of learning through textbooks, students from KIS were given a chance to research, plan and design the actual bridges in their own labs as a p...

Korean Herald, October 18th, 2016

My Promo video for Learning 2

Learning2: Tokyo 2018

My profile video from KIS series: Teachers as Humans

Steeped in Research

This is an article about the teacher researcher team I was a part of. The National Science Foundation selected a number of teachers to work with scientists around the globe, studying environmental science, chemistry, geology and biology in China in the summer of 2013.

UNLV Magazine, March 18th, 2014

UNLV student has passion for science, wins national scholarship for effortsPayne’s passion for science and work in Dr. Brian Hedlund’s microbiology lab at UNLV paved the way for his recent selection as a 2017 Goldwater Scholar, which is given to 240 university students each year. Payne, a 20-year-old junior, is the first ...

Las Vegas Sun, May 30th, 2017

We built a full sized Raspberry Pi arcade machine.

Making Better Teachers Podcast

I was invited to talk about education, STEAM, and makerspaces on Kevin O'Shea's podcast