Anna is a caring, personal, experiential-focused and innovation-driven PS-12 Educator. At Hawken School, located just outside Cleveland, Ohio, she is the STEM Support Specialist. Anna has formerly been a 7th Grade Science Teacher, Science Department Chair, Student Life Lead, and Middle School Assistant Director at Hawken, and a cornerstone faculty member at Ensworth High School in Nashville, Tennessee where she taught all science subjects in grades 9 through 12. In her fourteen years of teaching, Anna has originated experiential curriculum in agriculture, environmental, evolution, and aquatic topics and integrated math-science learning modules. For the past three years, Anna has been the Director of Hawken’s brand new 3600 sq. ft. Innovation Lab, traveled extensively to research makerspace facilities and philosophies, and co-led the annual Fab Play Summer Institute. Anna has presented her work at the National Math and Science Teacher Associations Conferences, T3 International Conference, the Hawken Fab Play Institute, the Independent Schools Association of the Central States Annual Meeting, the Missions Skills Assessment Conference, the STEM Learning Ecosystems Convening of Practice, the Virtual Maker-Ed Unconference, of which she was a streering committee member, the 2020 FabxLive Symposium from the Fab Foundation, and regional educator gatherings in Ohio and Tennessee. She holds degrees in Biology and Japanese from The Ohio State University and a Masters in Secondary Education from Vanderbilt University. Anna loves everything about Japan, where she grew up, and making student visions a reality. Currently, her favorite machine in the Innovation lab is the router, which she recently used to round off edges of giant wooden dice for a group of students making wooden toys and games. 

You can learn more about Anna’s work in the Innovation Lab on Instagram @HawkenFabPlay and at https://fablab.hawken.edu/home.

Corey is a teacher, learner and maker. He has over a decade of experience teaching science in high school classrooms. As an extension of this interest in science, Corey taught himself electronics, and then learned to program with Arduino. When the school where he taught installed a Fab Lab, Corey learned how to use the machines through experimentation. Then Corey was in the second American Picademy in San Mateo, California at the Computer History Museum. He was one of a tiny number of active teachers to ever attempt and graduate from Fab Academy, the intensive course from the Fab Foundation. He used these skills to push students to design their own musical instruments, circuit boards, furniture and many more things in his Engineering course, Science Olympiad club and First Robotics club.

 Corey has collaborated with teachers of all kinds to help bring technology-enabled lessons to students, so they could start to see how their world is made. A few examples: Working with a high school math teacher, Engineering students built and tested GPS data loggers to collect 3D positional data from rollercoasters, during the rides. The math students then processed this information into graphical representations of the rollercoasters themselves. Working with elementary Art teachers, Corey helped design lessons that brought the resources of a Fab Lab to enable learning about tessellations, Jackson Pollack and many more artists and concepts. Partnering with middle school teachers, students were able to design and build small arduino-based robots from servos and 3D printed parts. Partnering with a CAD program helped students design + build a light-based vein finder for low-cost medical use. 

 With an educator’s perspective in the Fab Lab world, Corey Has presented at the Fab13 Conference in Santiago, Chile; the FAB xLive conference, Fab Play, and many state and regional education and technology conferences. Corey has run Professional development for teachers learning how to use digital fabrication tools and technology in general. Presently, Corey is starting a course for adults at the community Fab Lab: “MakeHaven” in New Haven, CT, USA. This new course has an intent to help people learn the full introductory set of skills used in a Fab Lab over 40 weeks, while also respecting their busy schedules. Also, Corey is writing a learning management system carte blanche to guide students of all ages through learning Fab Lab skills, with specific instructional guidance based on their experience and locally available resources.