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Can the Makers Movement be a Trojan horse in schools that breaks the dividers between student and teacher, tests and applied-understanding, single-correct-answer and discovery and innovation?  
​I joined the Beam Center with the goal of building the capacity of schools interested in the Maker Movement so they can transform their practices through creative technologies and "making". After several iterations I created a program that connected real makers (engineers, artists, craft-men, etc) with a network of teachers with whom they created and implemented projects inside their classrooms.
 Beam Center builds together with NYC youth, artists, engineers, makers and educators to connect people to projects that have purpose. Young people learn to collaborate and create while learning skills in welding, physical computing, carpentry, ceramics, textiles, video, programming and design. Projects help young people build their character and self-esteem, develop skills that are useful in today’s workplace, and prepare for a life of continual learning and meaningful action
Creation of their Professional Development program through a grant of Mozilla and MacArthur Foundation with the goal of support agency in students and increase the number of computational thinking ideas use by non-computer science teachers
  • Coach, mentor an pair with artists, engineers and scientist a cohort of 50+ NYC educators from 14 public high-school to help them integrate cutting-edge technology with project-based learning into their practices and pursue an inquiry project during the school year. Third iteration: Learn more​
Design and/or implement impact-measurements to assess project-based learning and share results. ​
Coordinate the creation of FabLab@School in 5 public schools in each of the boroughs  of NYC
Coordinate cross-domain teacher’s curriculum development that integrates technology and computational thinking with academic subjects          Brooklyn Daily Eagle