Hello, you’re listening to an episode of the Global Education podcast series, from Teacher magazine.
I’m Jo Earp and my guest today is Jaymes Dec, IT Integrator at The Marymount School of New York in Manhattan. For the last seven years, he’s been teaching computer programming, physical computing, digital design and fabrication in FabLabs and makerspaces. He’s also co-founded the NYC Makery – a public makerspace where children, families and educators can experiment and explore. And he’s President of the Nerdy Derby.
Jo Earp: Jaymes Dec, thanks for joining Teacher today. So, to start off can you explain a little bit about the makerspace work that you’re doing at Marymount?
Jaymes Dec: So, Marymount is a [p-12 school]; we have about 750 students but they’re distributed across three different campuses. So, we…
