Summary
Zach Fredin is a hands-on maker and creative learning leader with 11 years of experience designing, building, and teaching with digital fabrication, electronics, and novel materials. Currently Head of Creative Learning and Practice at The Metro Kingston, he runs fabrication centers, residencies, and community workshops while also consulting on fab lab planning, grant writing, and EE/ME prototyping. His background blends MIT media-arts-and-sciences research, tokamak instrumentation at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and founding a hands-on neuroscience education startup, giving him a rare mix of high-tech instrumentation and grassroots maker pedagogy. Known for waking up machines, writing thorough documentation, and hiring (and firing) tools, he excels at turning strange materials and weird ideas into reproducible learning experiences.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Media Arts and Sciences, Master of Science - MS, Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.E.M., Engineering Management, M.E.M., Engineering Management at Case Western Reserve University