FabAcademy - 2017

I'm a teacher. I work for St. Jude School since 2009. I've been exploring some educational projects related to technology for some time, trying to find creative and inspirational ways to design activities for our students. My main goal is for our students to create, and learn in the process of creating.

Project based learning opens up a great range of possibilities for knowledge application, and allows creativity and practicality to work toghether in order to imagine solutions and solve problems.

As a teacher, I've enjoyed the process of learning along with students of all ages, and had the opportunity to learn and use all kinds of software and hardware tools.

On the personal side, I like paragliding, music, electronics, programming and handcrafting. I'm a technology fan. For several years I have been using free and open source software for all my tasks, personal and professional.

I hope FabAcademy will give me more tools and opportunities to learn new things and solve new problems, and many new ideas to help my students learn and create. It is my intention to integrate as many aspects of FabAcademy as possible into my students' lessons and projects.

The video channel contains a little more than a hundred videos. This project is meant to offer means to create and publish digital content with educational and general value for our students and school community.

For this project I had to learn several software packages, including:

The St. Jude School Solar Car is, as far as we know, the first 100% life-size solar car in Costa Rica and Central America. This was a 2 year project by highschool students.

St. Jude Solar Car Team on the news:

Minetest is an Infiniminer and Minecraft inspired game. It is a sandbox in wich you can build anything from cube units. Our school students were challenged to build their own school inside the game, while network playing.

Pictures of the project:

When we decided to get a 3D printer, we thought it would be better to have our students assemble it, and so the course became "build the 3d printer, and learn how to use it".

When we decided to get a 3D printer, we thought it would be better to have our students assemble it, and so the course became "build the 3d printer, and learn how to use it".

Third grade students had a general interest for robotics, so they proposed a few ideas. During a period of 4 months they learned to hack simple arduino programs to activate four robots: