Liz Whitewolf [email protected]

Liz Whitewolf has a passion for integrating digital fabrication technologies equitably in schools for students, teachers, and other stakeholders in formal and informal education. Formerly the K-12 Education Director for Fab Foundation, Liz is now the Founding Director of eduFAB, an organization dedicated to catalyzing this toolset in education across the globe. A graduate of FAB Academy, Liz opened an educational Fab Lab in Pittsburgh, PA, in 2015, eventually expanding the program to include two mobile fab lab units in addition to the museum-based makerspace. Liz served as Senior Director of STEM Education at Carnegie Science Center and previously was a classroom teacher and out of school time educator in robotics, computer programming, and engineering. Currently Liz is pursuing her Ed.D. in STEM Education at the University of Pittsburgh researching teacher professional development in digital fabrication integration.  Liz and her family are all makers and spend time experimenting and creating projects in their garage-based Fab Lab in their Pittsburgh home.

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Lesson Plans

Tactile Assisted Design: Four Forces of Flight
Students who are blind and visually impaired oftentimes can t participate in computer aided design (CAD) and digital fabrication activities…
January 31, 2024
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Quadcopter Challenge
The law defines an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) as 8220 an aircraft that is operated without the possibility of direct…
November 13, 2017
CAD, CNC, electronics, Laser cutter, Fab Tested, Museum/Science Center, Chevron STEM Awards, laser cutting, drone

Lessons with Contributions

Educ-avatar
This is an international workshops where participants from different parts of the world were introduced to the subject of the…
December 30, 2021
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Solar Car T-Shirt Design
This will be a design project where the students will create a t shirt design for an upcoming Solar Car…
August 11, 2021
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Adding Integers on Scratch Number Lines
This lesson will help support students in their conceptual understanding of how to utilize a number line to add integers…
June 25, 2021
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