THE FAB FOUNDATION

The organization brings digital fabrication tools and processes to people of all ages, teaching the skills and knowledge of digital fabrication, developing curriculum for formal and informal educational settings, as well as designing and offering professional development training programs for teachers, fab lab managers and other professionals. The organization offers advanced technical education through the fab academy which provides instruction and supervises investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication and other technologies. The fab academy is a worldwide, distributed campus utilizing fab labs as classrooms and libraries for a new kind of technical literacy. The organization also provides professional development and resources for k12 teachers and educators through its scopes-df website and research platform (scopesdf.org). This site shares resources and disseminates best educational practices for educators using digital fabrication to teach stem disciplines and skills.