Marc Teusch has been fascinated with electronics since he was eight. He has spent the last 20 years of his life sharing this passion and knowhow working as a computer sciences teacher in Ettelbruck. Confronted with restrictions on time, resources and curricula posed by the school framework, Teusch established the first volunteer-led, not for profit hacker space in Luxembourg in 2008.
“A hacker space is a place where people can make and exchange ideas, talk about projects and profit from common infrastructure […] that’s expensive to buy for a single project,” Teusch explained in an interview with Delano this week.
“I wanted to bring that idea to school. I thought that learning in a non-formal environment was fantastic and encouraging.”
Marc Teusch is pictured giving a TEDx talk about makerspaces at Mudam in March 2013. Photo: Jessica Theis/archives
In 2012, Teusch pitched the…
