To play a key role in innovating technology in the classroom, I started by supporting teachers with the DTI model from Innovation in the Heartland. Students moved from substituting paper hall passes with 3D printed ones into creating 3D printed adapters that allowed the same 3D printer to accept different rolls of filament. 

Later, I applied the 3D printer knowledge to help design the next eDGE grant to take the digital desktop game they coded to a table-top version. Accessing a younger students knowledge to tell a story with text-to-speech technology (Talk to Read©) could inspire aspiring game designers to create a digital and table top versions of the younger students' story. Imagine the power of empathy cultivated with between different grade-level students through their authentic words expanded into a game and then iterated to innovate both a desktop and tabletop version of their stakeholders' story.