My name is Alex, my first digital fabrication contact was in 2010 at Architectural Association São Paulo Visiting School . In 2011 I went to FAB 7 in Lima were I saw how Fab Lab network can join efforts in empowering people through technology with the aim of transforming our society. Returning to my country, I did the first Fab Lab Kids workshop in 2011 in a public space with participation of Fab Lab Costa Rica ( Milton Villegas),Fab lab Barcelona (Tomas Diez) and with the presence of our Maestro Beno Juarez (Fab lab Lima).

To structure a public program, I conceived in 2013 the Fab Social : a mini mobile Fab Lab to hold an after school program to teach some Fab Lab's concepts to kids from low income communities. This project winned at the 2014 Global Fab Awards Special commendation project Fab 10 Barcelona.

In 2015 Fab Social winned the MakersEduca experiment spaces from Lemann/Telefonica Foundation and the 1º Prize Public Program at AREDE Educa magazine ( Brazil) in 2016.

Invited by our maestro Beno Juarez in 2014, I began with Alejandra Lastras and Ilaria La Manna the Fab Lat Kids project that is an initiative of the Latin American network of Fab Labs (Fab Lat) constituded by an interdisciplinary team who develops projects based on technology and digital fabrication as tools for the educational and social development of latin american children and teenagers.The super kids team winned the First Prize at FAB 11 Boston in 2015 with “Emosilla”.

In 2015 I did my master degree in Architecture touching the education subject by a architect and maker perspective. My dissertation was supervised by Professor Paulo Fonseca (Fab Lab SP coordinator) with the title: Considerations about a common conceptual field between basic school, design and digital modeling and manufacturing technologies. Currently, I’m a graduate student of pedagogy at UNIVESP a government employee researching how Fab Lab could identify, support and nurture innovation in the public service and scientific technological public policies . My areas of activity are: public school´s teacher and employee training focusing on spreading innovation in their working areas in order to improve public service. Then, I would like to thank Juliana Henno, my tutor Kenzo Abiko, Victor Macul, Daniel Krás, Fábio Pelicano, Rodrigo Arruda, Paulo Fonseca and Heloisa Neves for helping this Fab Academy dream come true!