User:Makeda Stephenson

I have been involved with the Fab Lab network for a number of years. I am a Fab Academy graduate (Class of 2010). I am an active member of the international Fab Lab network and serve labs locally as a consultant/instructor/manager. I have a passion for Fab Lab based community outreach and urban impact, informal programing/program development and lab-based science and technology education for young people. I've developed and piloted multiple Fab Lab programs and shared what I've learned at the past 3 international Fab Lab symposiums.

I co-founded the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project Inc., an organization and lab network who's purpose is to facilitate the establishment of Fab Labs in the greater Boston area. I'm an officer and board member for the TIE Project and am now serving as the lab manager and main instructor for our initial lab. Our first Lab is located in Roxbury Massachusetts.

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