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R.ED PROGRAM
SteamHead Resident Educators are part of our community! We invite educators from out of town and country to be a guest inside our makerspace, in our Resident Room!
Our aim is to aid Maker Embedded learning programs through cultural exchange, bringing international makers to China and establishing lasting connections between our residents and our city’s educational institutions.
PROGRAM SUMMARY
Our popular Shenzhen location is currently suspended. We ask that you perform some community service, either volunteer for the makerspace, or projects in the makerspace, or for the anywhere local community. It doesn’t have to be related to SteamHead! Helping the community of Shenzhen grow is all we ask!
1 to 5 weeks stay
Education-related applicants qualify
Resident Room is free of rent, but we ask for 15 rmb per day to help with electricity, water, and weekly cleaning fees (winter can be cheaper, no AC needed!)
R.ED Volunteer Opportunities
SteamHead R.ED embeds Maker Education and international cultural exchanges into Shenzhen educational experiences. Basically, we love doing it so we donate time and space in order to help educators and students get together!
School Workshops
Residents are placed in local schools to either run their own workshop, or participate in the school’s Maker Workshops. This is a great way to connect to with students in Shenzhen directly, and have true cross cultural experiences!
Makerspace Workshops
Students of all ages are invited to our space to participate in workshops that the resident designs! These can be free or with a material fee, and are a great way for residents to see their Maker Ed projects being battle tested!
Community Presentations
Residents present to the community in a variety of forums! SteamHead sets up talks with local entrepreneurial and maker groups in Shenzhen, and gives the international resident instant access to the Shenzhen Maker community.
Our Resident Educators
Julia
Student researching the Geography of Innovation! more details coming later.
Paul Hamilton
Paul Hamilton is one of Shenzhen's core foreign hackers, check out the articles below to see a few of his activities.
Diane Hamilton
Diane is a Maker from Australia! She specializes in sewn projects and has contributed to some dazzling MakeFashion projects!
Olivier
Olivier is not a social media poster, however he shares his engineering skills freely with members and we have put the results of his work on Twitter and YouTube! If you know him, you may be able to spot it! He has volunteered time in both training people how to build...
Jonathan
Editor's note: Jonathan's stay in Shenzhen is not complete! However we couldn't help but show a few preview pictures of some of his projects.
Maria Hoover
Michelle
Michelle is an urban farmer and food maker, who joined us at Steamhead from Singapore, sharing her enthusiasm for fermentation and (ripping ceilings off). Her projects included: Brought together a community at SAIS to kickstart their urban rooftop farm, with Carrie...
Karen Nemeth
I am a creative engineer who strives to expand the boundaries of what's possible in the world by seamlessly connecting our physical and digital societies. My passion for re-strategising how established systems operate has led me on a journey across dozens of teams,...
Pushp (Huahua)
Pushp came to SteamHead during the GOSH event, and stayed on as short term resident! His is electric unicycle enthusiast, with a passion for open sourcing. Pushp has since made strong connections in Shenzhen, and graduated from a SteamHead Resident to a Shenzhen...
Torrey Nommesen
I am a teacher, artist, maker, and wantreprenuer. Below are some of my current projects. The best way to contact me at the moment is through LinkedIn. photography awesome Just the Factoids project where I post a new factoid every day LinkedIn profile if you want to...
Tszlam Cheung
Fafa
Kaspar
Marc Dusseiller
Marc came with a crew of organizers and participants to Shenzhen to work on the Shenzhen GOSH event. SteamHead was filled with great folks from the event, and they gave a lot back to not only Shenzhen but also the global community with their event, which took place at...
Olivia
Olivia is an artist who loves to upcycle found objects into art! She has been at SteamHead making lovely lamps, and teaching others her craft!
Oliver Child
Oliver came down for a full month's residency in August! We will be posting some of the projects and events he hosted. He created a HUGE wall drawing machine, he coached primary school students in 3D modeling, he developed a MakeFashion Edu flashy badge template, a 3D...
Aisling Yue
Shannon Hoover
Shannon Hoover, of MakeFashion, works with SteamHead members pretty much 365 days a year! We hope to get him over here as a permanent Shenzhen Ren soon!
Linda Jie Ming
Active member and mother, and Founder of the Dongwan education program, which involves SteamHead going into a migrant school and setting up classes for both students and teachers.
Marco Bartsch
Ross Atkin
Ross stayed with us for just a few nights! Also, he was an exceptional resident who had already been working out the details of his community service, and had everything prepared and planned as the main purpose of his trip. We offer a free residency room to makers...
Anina Net
Anina is an international model turned maker! She joined us in Shenzhen to bring attitude and fashion to electronics and education. Find her on http://www.anina.net/ and http://www.360fashion.net/ Anina ran several ed workshops in the community, and also presented to...
Zachary
Zachary is a artist and maker living between Shenzhen and the US. He came to SteamHead to work on the design and construction of this laser cut lamp, which has become quite famous in Shenzhen. The 7 layers are individually designed in Adobe Illustrator from a master...
Nick Shriner
Tommen
Tommen was our high school intern for a month, living at his home in Shenzhen and coming into the makerspace on weekdays as an excellent Resident Educator! He volunteered at SAIS helping with Project Based Learning efforts (pictured at SAIS, using the laser cutter),...
Helen Steer
We are hosting Helen Steer in November! She will be living, working, and teaching from our resident's room in Shekou. Here is the program she's with: " In March 2017 makers from Shenzhen and the UK took part in Hello Shenzhen, a three week immersive residency...
Natsuko
One of our first residents! A lady from Japan in Shenzhen to work on prototyping her makeup refrigerator! Natsuko only stayed a few days, and contributed 3 pieces of lovely art to the SteamHead walls. She also taught us about 3D modeling, and the needs for a cool...