Jaymes Dec

Jaymes Dec is a middle school technology teacher at The Marymount School of New York, an all­girls independent school in New York City. He was the Program Manager at GreenFab, a National Science Foundation program for students from the South Bronx that taught STEM skills through classes on sustainable design and green technologies. Jaymes was named a “Teacher of the Future” by the National Association of Independent Schools and a Senior FabLearn Fellow by Stanford University. He co­founded The NYC Makery, a public makerspace for children and communities in New York City and he is on the Board of Directors for the Nerdy Derby, an educational nonprofit that organizes creative design challenges for children. A graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU, Jaymes has taught makers of all grade levels between kindergarten and graduate school. Jaymes is an Adjunct Professor in the Creative Technologies Certification Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.