Matthew Gerber | Fab Academy 2016

About Me

I joined Western Reserve Academy (WRA), which is a top-ranked, independent, boarding and day school in Hudson, Ohio, after spending 10 years teaching, counseling and coaching at the Culver Academies in Culver, Ind. I spent three years owning and managing a development and construction business in Indianapolis, and one year teaching at Brownsburg Senior Academy in Brownsburg, Ind. In 2014, I was named the Director of Information and Education Technology for WRA.

Western Reserve Academy is currently installing a 6,000sq ft digital fabrication studio for our students and will align ourselves with the Fab Foundation and become a Fab Lab. It is scheduled to be open to students in April of 2016. I have been involved in all phases of the project. I hope to strenghten and deepen my skills by completing the Fab Academy which will benefit our new digital fabrication space and students.



I am currently teaching the following courses in 2015-2016 to grades 9-12 at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio: Advanced Placement Government, Advanced Placement Comparative Government, Aeronautical Engineering, Introduction to Graphic Design, From Innovation to Entrepreneurship and Introduction to Fabrication.

I also taught the following courses in the last four years at Western Reserve Academy:2-D Video Game Design, United States History, Modern World History, Personal Finance and Video Editing