





In 2017 I joined the EDU Workshop at Microsoft to work on Hacking STEM. The education workshop is a small incubation team that focuses on developing next generation learning experiences for K-12 education. On the team I collaborate with teachers to design inquiry and project-based activities that embed computational and design thinking into existing middle school curriculum. A driving ethos of the team is to democratize STEM for learners and demonstrate how all schools can provide affordable opportunities to bring ‘making’ and 21st century technical skills to the classroom. All of our projects use the Data Streamer add-in for Excel which brings to life the fundamentals of science, opens the emerging world of IOT to the classroom, and helps educators meet a wide range of NGSS and ISTE standards.