Meet the Fab Team

Sarah Prendergast Wallace, Fab Lab Coordinator 

Sarah has been running the CMSD Fab Lab programs since 2016.  She spent seven years teaching Math, Engineering and Art at the NYC iSchool in New York City before moving back to Ohio to join the Fab Team.  After growing up in Northeast Ohio Sarah attended Kenyon College where she studied Mathematics and Religious Studies. Next, she moved to New York to attend graduate school at NYU focusing on Secondary Math Education.   After attending NYU’s ITP EdCamp Sarah become passionate about maker education and began teaching MakerEd courses including Bridge Building, Paper Engineering, Pop-Up Book Design and Mathematical Art. As the Fab Lab Coordinator Sarah works with students, teachers, and schools to develop and implement fun Maker and Fab projects in the Mobile Fab Lab. She is also running the Cleveland Cavaliers and Goodyear EPC DF+STEM Lab, a professional development lab where CMSD teacher can learn about digital fabrication and how to use it in their classrooms by attending workshops, borrowing technology from our large library of 3D printers and Vinyl cutters  and become part of the maker community in CMSD.

Sarah’s MTT talk on Paper Engineering 

Email sarah:  sarahpwallace15@gmail.com or sarah.wallace@clevelandmetroschools.org