Sylvia Martinez

Columbia University’s FabLearn Fellows, Nova York (EUA).

Before becoming an educational software producer and vice president of a video game company, she was an aerospace engineer. She spent a decade as president of Generation YES, an innovative non-profit initiative that provides educators with the tools to place students in leadership roles in their schools and communities. Sylvia delights and challenges the audience as a keynote speaker at major conferences around the world. She brings her real-world experience in highly innovative learning organizations and work environments.

She is the co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, a book that advocates innovative learning with modern technology, real-world design principles, and creative, hands-on experiences, and has long been regarded as the bible of the maker movement in the schools. Sylvia Martinez has been creating innovative online learning experiences for educators and students for decades.