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FACILITATED
FACILITATED
2026 - Fab Foundation Fab26 EDU summit table and co-presented with Sara Bolduc "Stitching STEAM" sewing as engineering for educators' hands-on workshop (SLIDES).
2026 - AAUW's Tech Trek Girls STEAM camp program instructor at UC Santa Cruz (Spring/Summer) - Paper Circuits (SLIDES)
2026 - SPARKmakers (STEAM & Robotics 831) OST STEAM TK-12th academies in Castroville, Seaside, and Salinas, in cardboard engineering (automata), drones, 3D design with TinkerCAD and Bambu printers, and LEGO Spike Prime robotics.
2026 - AAUW's Engineering for Social Impact female mentoring Saturday workshop at Pajaro Middle School in digital storytelling & cardboard engineering with Bare Conductive Touch Boards to promote the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
2025 - SCCOE WaveMAKERs - developed and co-taught integrated STEAM makerspace push-ins in 2 high schools
2025 - IgnitED Teacher Coach, Sustainable Solutions Experience Week (North Bay)
2025 - Guest Instructor, Brown University Pre-College Programs, STEM for Rising 9th & 10th Graders
2 week in-person: Product Design for a Healthier Planet: Intro to Circular Economy Thinking
2024 - Facilitator/Chaperone, Dream Volunteers + EPAA HS volunteer trip in Antiqua, Guatemala
2020-22 - Presenter & Organizer, Nation of Makers NOMCON conferences
2019 - Instructor, Infinity STEAMED Summer School, RAFT - Resource Area For Teaching
2018-2026 - CTE Engineering & Makerspace Teacher, supporting pathways to dual enrollment at Foothill College and Engineer Your World: Engineering Design & Analysis Course.
2018 - Educational Consultant & Teacher Trainer, PIPER Computer Kit
2017-22 - Regional Meetup Lead, South Bay / Peninsula, Bay Area Maker Educators
2014-2015 - Program Manager Intel + Clubhouse Network Making! @ Clubhouses & Start Making! curricula educator training
2014 - Workshop Lead, Intel + Maker Education Initiative, Making Possibilities Day
2011-15 - Coordinator Train-the-Trainer, Intel Computer Clubhouse Network @ Museum of Science, Boston (including Best Buy Teen Technology Center rollouts)
2010 - Facilitator / Train-the-Trainer, One Economy + Comcast Digital Connectors
2010-12 - Researcher & Community Organizer, MIT Media Lab, Center for Civic Media, Department of Play
2008 - Guest Researcher & Instructor, Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India
(As part of MIT MISTI India Summer Fellowship)
2006-7 - Community Digital Storytelling Facilitator, HUD Network Neighborhoods + Creative Narrations, StoriesForChange.net
PARTICIPATED
PARTICIPATED
2026 - Cabrillo College Non-Credit Certificate programs in Education and Manufacturing & Production (Fab Lab)
2026, 2025 & 2024 - Infosys Pathfinders Summer Institutes in LEGO Robotics with Brown Dog Gadgets and Electronic Textiles
2024 - American Society for Metals (Materials-Science) Foundation Teacher Camp, Boston, MA
2024 - San Mateo County Office of Education Environmental Solutionary Teacher Fellowship
2023 - Engineer Your World: Engineering Design & Analysis Course Teacher Certification, University of Texas at Austin, JJ Pickle Research Center
2022 - K-12 Curriculum Teacher Fellow, UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute
2021 - California Tiny House CTE Teacher Training
2020 - IgnitED Teacher Summer Fellowship - Lockheed Martin Materials Lab
2018 - STEM Teaching Fellow, EnCorps STEM Teachers Program
2005 - Scratch Researcher & Educator, MIT Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten IDEAS Institute
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