Build Your Block
Grades 3–7 · neighborhood makers lab
A 28-session invention studio connecting light, motion, sound, sensing, and coding to public-facing neighborhood projects.
Courses, workshops, residencies
Teaching
Working systems-first, I make technical and ethical layers legible so students can audit, extend, and treat media as civic instruments.
Selected learning programs
Programs built to travel
Representative youth and community programs from the larger curriculum archive. Each one includes facilitator structure, learner-facing materials, and an explicit delivery boundary.
From Idea to 3D Print
Grades 3–5 · fabrication
An 11-week path through modeling, slicing, print operations, iteration, attribution, and designing for another person.
Sound Design and Engineering
High school · 22 sessions
A Chromebook-friendly studio spanning field recording, synthesis, Foley, editing, mixing, critique, and final presentation.
Tiny Whoop Tuning & Racing
High school · flight and control
Twenty sessions joining simulation, Betaflight configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, safe flight, and race practice.
AI in Your Feed: Create, Explore, Protect
High school · critical digital literacy
A North Minneapolis-grounded studio centered on creative agency, bias, privacy, consent, verification, and refusal.
Learning maps
Infrastructure behind the classroom-facing work
These diagrams explain how kits, teaching archives, and platform layers relate. They make the pedagogical and distribution logic visible before every final screenshot or artifact exists.
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MCAD Media 2 — MTN Broadcast
Students run a 28-minute broadcast from pitch to air.
Critical Making — Day One
Day-one sprint where theory, consent practice, and solder fumes share the same table.
Creative Coding 101
First steps into generative sketching backed by documentation rituals and critique drills.
How I run my classrooms
Build-first, document loudly, and thread justice/representation questions through every station card. Consent, access, and civic impact get treated as features—not footnotes.
When a method needs to travel beyond one course, it moves into studio-notes as cross-project reference, decision, or teaching material. Need a custom workshop, staff training, or research residency? Hit me up and let's build the assumption ledger together.