One thing about working at a school is that although I get a lot of vacation, especially during the summers, I don’t get to take vacations at will. Not that I’m complaining, of course, since I still get way more total vacation days than most! But it does make us have to be a bit […]
Archives for October, 2012
a way to measure curiosity
Last week, I got to get away from school for a couple of days to attend FabLearn, a conference on digital fabrication in education hosted by our collaborators, Dr. Paulo Blikstein and his lab at Stanford. I met so many interesting people and got to play with various cool toys, including things like TinkerCAD (a […]
a start of something new…
After too many years in grad school and brief stints as a part-time lecturer at assorted universities in the Bay Area, I’m now embarking on a new journey as the director of a tinkering studio at an independent, all-girls school down in the peninsula. Next year, I hope to be able to say that I’m […]