LEARNINGTECH.ORG - Key Persons

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• Director of Knowledge and Learning for the 360 Accelerator Association
• Secretary of the Corporation and Chief Financial Officer

In addition to her role as Chief Financial Officer for The Miller Institute, Alice is the Director of Knowledge and Learning for the 360 Accelerator Association where she provides charter school leaders with information and training on all charter school issues, including finance, board governance, petition writing, curriculum and facilities. Alice worked for the California Charter Schools Association for 16 years as the Director of Knowledge Management. She is a co-founder of California's first charter school, the San Carlos Charter Learning Center (SCCLC) and co-founded two other charter schools, Aurora High School and Voices College Bound Language Academies. She is also a member of the Governing Council for the SCCLC and a founding board member of Voices. Alice worked for the California Network of Educational Charters in various roles from 1996-2003, including serving as CANEC's Bay Area Region Coordinator. During her tenure as the administrator and CFO for Aurora High School, Alice led the successful effort against the first school district challenge to a Prop 39 facilities request in California. Alice's other main interest is technology, and she has been the technology coordinator for several schools and school districts.

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• Teaching Professor Emeritus

Brian Harvey is a Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked as a software developer and has taught (as a volunteer in some cases) every age from first grade to graduate school. Brian has made two main contributions to the Logo community. First, he is the author of the three-volume Computer Science Logo Style series, among the first books to take Logo beyond beginning turtle graphics. They are addressed to teenagers (and their teachers) and present computer science ideas from scope of variables, recursion, and higher order functions through automata theory, compilers, and artificial intelligence. During Logo's heyday in the 1980s, the first volume was widely used in teacher preparation in computer science.

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• Director of Information Technology

Chris has been with Learningtech.org since 2001, when he merged his own successful computer consulting proprietorship with the company, to the enrichment of both organizations. A widely-recognized expert on Macintosh Server installation and configuration, Chris is Apple-certified and has been working on Macs since childhood. Chris is at home with the Unix command line and has written numerous tools and teaching programs in Java, C, Python, and other languages. He teaches robotics and computer programming to middle school and high school students at our summer camps and in-school electives. He has installed and configured countless networks and servers in K-12 schools throughout California.

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• Consultant

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• Database Developer

Curt Menn rejoined Learningtech.org in 2022. In earlier times, Curt's Learningtech.org experience included building school networks from the ground up; computer labs, both Mac and Windows based, were also built, and then supported. After Curt joined Apple Computer's support division, he was quickly advanced to Tier2 support of Apple's Education Support. When Apple launched its PowerSchool division, Curt joined that team to support schools around the world for the next 14 years. He gained specialized skills in the PowerSchool application, eventually assuming a Subject Matter Expert role working deeply in PowerSchool's Oracle database backend and with PowerSchool's Hosting Operations, using tools such as Amazon Web Services and VSphere. Another advancement to PowerSchool's Development and Operations division put Curt in a Quality Assurance role. Curt is also a musician, enjoys road tripping with his wife, and cooking different regional food styles to relive memories of places visited.

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• Computer Scientist
• Researcher

Cynthia Solomon is a pioneer in the fields of computer science and educational computing. She has focused on creating thoughtful, personally expressive, and aesthetically pleasing learning environments for children. Her Lisp programming work led to her collaboration with Seymour Papert, Danny Bobrow and Wally Feurzeig at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) in 1966 when they created Logo, the first programming language designed for children. Her work with Seymour Papert continued at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, where they started started the Logo Group in 1969. The Logo environment was then extended to include music, turtle graphics, and robotics with the collaboration of Marvin Minsky and other Lab members. Dr. Solomon was the Vice President of R&D for Logo Computer Systems, Inc. when Apple Logo was developed, and was the Director of the Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory. She also worked as a computer teacher in elementary and secondary schools. Her seminal book, Computer Environments for Children, was the first comprehensive reflection on computers in education, and her paper with Seymour Papert, "Twenty Things to do with a Computer," is a classic in the field. Her new book, Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education, is a major contribution to reflecting on computational thinking and children. She received an MA in Computer Science from Boston University (1976) and an EdD from Harvard University (1985). Dr. Solomon continues to contribute to the field by conducting workshops and by speaking at conferences. She serves on the program committee of Constructing Modern Knowledge and in 2016 was awarded both the National Center for Women & Information Technology Pioneer Award and the Constructionism Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received the 2019 FabLearn Lifetime Achievement Award.

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• Director and Principal Researcher at the Centro
• Director and Principal Researcher, Centro Do Innovación Y Diseño Avanzado ( Cinnda ) in Chile
• Professor

David Cavallo is a Director and Principal Researcher at the Centro do Innovación y Diseño Avanzado (Cinnda) in Chile, where they research and develop new technologies and methodologies applied to developing more just, ecological, and equitable communities. Initially working in a region with harsh environmental conditions, they are building Plenario, a source and forum for deliberative democratic discourse that contains an urban modeler to work collaboratively among residents and various stakeholders to design and implement projects to improve quality of life, equality, and environmental sustainability. Cavallo is also a Visiting Researcher at the Cátedra de Educação Básica at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo working on re-thinking and reforming basic education in Brazil. Cavallo was a consulting Learning Architect to the Fab Foundation and serves on the board of the South End Technology Center (SETC). Cavallo concentrates on how digital fabrication and computation can dramatically improve learning in schools and communities. His work focuses on how creative and constructive uses of computational technologies potentially create learning opportunities that otherwise are extremely difficult to obtain at large scales and with equitable access. Cavallo coordinated an innovative new collaboration among SETC, the Fab Foundation, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, the Mayor's office of the city of Boston, and Boston Public Schools titled Hands-Heads-Hearts: Machines Making Machines (H3M3) at Boston's Madison Park Technical Vocational High School. A primary project goal is to help re-invent technical/vocational education for the modern era, by providing access to learning computation and digital fabrication in order to enable advanced manufacturing, new business creation, and development of new solutions specific to local communities and issues, while also overcoming limitations of obsolete methods of instruction. David Cavallo was Professor Titular Visitante and a founding faculty member at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), a new public university serving the rural areas of the south of the state of Bahia. At UFSB he collaborated with colleagues to design, develop and teach new courses on computational thinking which all students take as part of their general formaDon, as well as robotics for education, inter-disciplinary courses that use computation and computational environments, ways the university can help improve basic education in the region, and ways to use technology to support active, collaborative learning and to overcome the barriers of distance and the lack of experienced teachers for all students. Prior to joining UFSB Cavallo was the Vice-President for education and Chief Learning Architect at One Laptop per Child (olpc). Cavallo led the learning team, worked internally and with partners to design and develop the low-cost, low-power, ecological laptop for learning for children, and then worked with countries to develop materials and local teams to support the transformation of public education to enable equitable access to high-quality education. Cavallo was a Research Scientist and co-Director with Seymour Papert of the Future of Learning Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. His research focus is on how we can better facilitate human learning using computational technologies. The group developed new digital technologies and new content that, combined with developing new theories of human learning, led to launching innovative learning projects in the U.S. and numerous other countries. Prior to MIT, Cavallo led the design and implementation of a new medical informatics system as part of a reform of health care delivery and management at the Harvard University Health Services. The goals of the system were to improve quality of care, increase access, and facilitate administration of medical care. The system was designed to be secure and still open. Perhaps most importantly, the goal was to enable learning by both providers and participants through developing technological fluency among all. He was a Software Principal Engineer in Digital's Artificial Intelligence Group and was also the founder of the Advanced Technology group for Digital's Latin American and Caribbean Region. He also worked as a software engineer at Infocom and Data General, and as a freelancer. Cavallo holds a Ph.D and Master of Science degree from the MIT Media Laboratory in Media Sciences focusing on learning and technology with Seymour Papert as his advisor, and studied Computer Science at Rutgers University.

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• Deputy Director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Don Shalvey is a former Member of the Board. He has always been a valued mentor, and is informally considered to have "Emeritus" status.

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• Consultant

Dr. Len Erickson holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University and a B.S. in Biology from Caltech. He has thirty years of experience in a range of high tech industry roles. This has included product design, development and marketing for the manufacturing software that was created to track and control the manufacture of silicon chips. This experience ranges from startup ventures to work as a senior technical consultant in HP's Professional Services group. Len is especially well-known in coastal San Mateo, where he has developed extensive collaborative efforts to ensure access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics [STEM] for under-served students from Pescadero to Pacifica. His relationship with Learningtech.org began as our key collaborator to create the San Mateo County Community STEM Alliance [SMCCSA]. In addition to his high tech industry experience, Dr. Erickson developed and sold a product that provided one of the first graphical interfaces for educational robotics, Hyperbot, developed as full featured product for the Macintosh platform. In the 1990's these material were used frequently in public workshops at The Tech Museum in San Jose and in school classrooms both many sites in the Bay Area and across the country. This range of experiences provides Dr. Erickson with a direct acquaintance with the critical competencies of the High Tech industries and considerable experience work with students both in in-school and out-of-school camp and workshop settings.

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• VP of E - Rate & Technology Planning

Eileen Miller has been part of the Learningtech.org team since 2005, and now serves as Vice President to manage our E-Rate and Technology Planning operations. Decades of work in corporate America taught her broad business and management skills. She brings a variety of additional expertise to the organization, including software programming, technical writing, marketing/research and analysis and product, project and facilities management. She holds an M.B.A. in Marketing, a B.A. in Art History and a B.S. in Computer Science. Eileen's combination of technical expertise with her M.B.A. provides a solid foundation for her current role, which requires technical understanding of the products and services sought, solid project management, and an appreciation of market forces and trends.

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• Professor and Associate Dean, Kennedy College of Sciences, UMass Lowell

As Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Undergraduate Studies at Kennedy College of Sciences at UMass Lowell, Fred Martin assists with course and program development and assessment; builds relationships with alumni; creates learning opportunities for students in research labs and industry; deepens academic partnerships with residence life; works with university relations to promote the campus; assists in faculty searches; and provides professional development and support to faculty members, particularly around teaching and learning. Fred's research focus is K-12 computer science education. He co-leads CS Pathways RPP, an NSF-funded researcher-practitioner partnership funded in 2019, where they are collaborating with the school districts of Methuen and Lowell (MA) and Schenectady (NY) to build a lasting middle school computer science curriculum based on equity and apps for social good. His research group is developing MYR, a programming environment to introduce middle and high school students to building virtual reality worlds. Fred was part of the small team which launched the Artificial Intelligence for K-12 Guidelines Initiative (AI4K12.org), which is creating curriculum guidelines and curating resources for the teaching of AI at the elementary and secondary levels. He now serves on the project's advisory board. Fred began his faculty career as an assistant professor in the computer science department at UMass Lowell in 2002. With UMass Lowell colleagues, he helped launch Artbotics, an approach to broadening participation in computing based on students making interactive artworks. He worked with a non-profit in Cambridge MA on iCODE, an after-school, middle school robotics curriculum for urban youth. Fred received an NSF Career award to develop approaches to using microcontrollers for science investigations (2006). This work brought him to a new focus on helping students make sense of data, including data from sensors, and data visualization. He and his colleagues created a novel web-based system for collaborative data visualization for middle and high-school use, called iSENSE (isenseproject.org). Fred served on a Massachusetts body which crafted the state's standards for K-12 Digital Literacy and Computer Science (2016). From 2014-2020, he served on the board of the directors of the Computer Science Teachers Association, a membership organization of K-12 teachers of computer science worldwide, including two years as chair of the board (2017-19). Fred's undergraduate degree was in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department with a specialization in computer science (1986). As an undergrad, he wrote code for a research robot in the lab of a Mechanical Engineering professor in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In this lab, he was introduced to research and graduate school. As a graduate student, Fred joined Seymour Papert's group in the MIT Media Lab, earning first an MS degree (1988) and then PhD (1994). Fred was mentored by Dr. Papert and his colleague, Dr. Edith Ackermann, a cognitive psychologist. Both Papert and Ackermann had studied with Jean Piaget; his constructivist theories were the foundation of the work in the research group. As a graduate student, Fred built on his passion for robotics by creating series of "robotics construction kits" for young learners (children from middle school age through undergraduates). Papert's research group had sponsorship from the LEGO company, and Fred's work led to the design and launch of the LEGO Robotics Invention System in 1998, the first widely available, consumer-friendly robotics building kit. Fred also created an open-source version of the same idea, the Handy Board, which was widely used in undergraduate computer science and robotics education in the 2000s, and the Handy Cricket, a palm-sized device co-developed with Brian Silverman.

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• Board Member and President - Elect of the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce
• Chief Business Officer, Palisades Charter High School

Greg has spent over 30 years in the field of Finance and Accounting, serving in various financial capacities with both public and private organizations, including Price Waterhouse, National Sanitary Supply, Unisource Worldwide and Georgia Pacific. Ten years ago, Greg saw the need for increased financial expertise in the emerging charter education movement and transitioned into management roles with ExED, a highly regarded provider of financial and accounting services for charter schools. He now serves as Chief Business Officer of the second-largest single-site charter school in California. Greg also serves as a Board member and President-elect of the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce.

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• Executive Coordinator for UCLA 's Academic Preparation & Educational Partnership ( APEP ) Programs ( Retired )

Jack retired from UCLA as Executive Officer for UCLA's educational outreach programs. In addition, Jack earned his B.S. and teaching credential from UCLA, has taught high school, elementary school, consulted nationally on effective instruction and clinical supervision, served as a lecturer/faculty advisor for UCLA's teacher credential program, served as Interim Executive Director of Computer Using Educators (CUE), Inc. and as Executive Director of Palisades Charter High School for 14 months. He received his masters and doctorate from the University of Southern California.

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• President of Miramontes Consulting
• Principal of Miramontes Computing

Jim Miller is Principal of Miramontes Computing, a user interaction design consultancy. He has worked in the field of human-computer interaction for over 25 years, doing research and product development in such fields as new media, Internet community development, consumer Internet appliances, intelligent interfaces, and usability evaluation methods. As a consultant, he works with large and small companies to identify customer-driven system requirements, prototype effective human interfaces to those systems, guide the prototype through the development process, and iteratively test and refine the final product. Jim has also served as the program manager for Intelligent Systems at Apple's Advanced Technology Group, Director of User Experience at Gateway's Internet Appliances Division, and the manager of the Human-Computer Interaction Department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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• German Programmer

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• Founder of Fenton Avenue Charter School, MOB ExEd Corporation

Joe Lucente is a pioneer in the charter school movement and recognized as one of the state's leading experts in charter school finance. In 1993, Joe led the conversion of one of the first conversion charter schools in California. Once considered one of the worst elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Fenton Avenue Charter School became a California Distinguished School and a national model of a successful conversion charter school honored by the White House, U.S. Congress and California Legislature. A fearless warrior for charter school student equity and as past-President of the California Network of Educational Charters (CANEC), Joe was a driving force in the creation of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA). Now retired from Fenton, Joe utilizes his 45 years of experience in both the private sector and public education by advising current charter school operators and serving on several boards of organizations benefiting charter school students. He is currently Chairman of the Board of CharterWorks, a new charter school service company providing quality services to Los Angeles area charter schools.

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• Data Coordinator

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• Director of Accounting

Lea joined Learningtech.org in 2016. She has a Bachelor of Accountancy and a Master of Accountancy from the University of Mississippi, and holds inactive CPA licenses in California and Virginia. Lea was an auditor for 8 years before she was the Business Administrator of a small California nonprofit for 3 years. Those experiences provided a strong foundation in finance and nonprofit operations and provided the skills to assist clients with many facets of the E-Rate process. When not crunching numbers, Lea enjoys hiking and biking with her husband and three daughters.

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• Visiting Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU - Shanghai

Margaret Minsky is Visiting Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU-Shanghai. She creates multimedia artifacts exploring learning, improvisation, and thought. Her core research has been in the field of haptic interfaces (computational interfaces that simulate objects that you can touch and feel) and while at the MIT Media Lab she developed the first technique for creating haptic textures. She produced a multimedia archive and event about music improvisation based on her father Marvin Minsky's Mind and Music ideas. Publication fields include computer graphics, educational computation and learning environments, and mechanical engineering. She has served on numerous conference program committees including ACM Siggraph. Her recent investigations are in whole-body interaction in technology and arts environments, with research aimed at increasing cognitive, social, and physical wellbeing, and in computing learning environments and craft computing. She completed a residency at the ATLAS Center, an interdisciplinary laboratory at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and is also a recreational performer in Trapeze and Circus Arts. Minsky previously directed research at Atari Cambridge Laboratory and Interval Research Corporation.

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• Executive Director
• President
• Executive Director, Learningtech.Org

Mark L. Miller, Ph.D. completed his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, in 1979, specializing in applications of artificial intelligence to education. In 2000, Miller founded Learningtech.org®, incorporating it as The Miller Institute for Learning with Technology, a California 501(c)(3) non-profit. He serves as both its lead technical contributor and its President and Executive Director. The mission of the organization is to help "children of all ages" use technology more effectively for learning. The firm has helped schools throughout California and in several other states. Services include: E Rate applications; technology plan preparation; professional development relating to Computer Science, Robotics and Making; IT consultation (network design; server router configuration/administration; technology impact assessment); and sponsored research in the areas of Educational Technology and Computer Science Education. Before founding Learningtech.org, Dr. Miller served as Lab Director for Learning and Tools at Apple, reporting to the Vice President, Advanced Technology Group [ATG], where he spent almost a decade heading up educational technology investigations. Apple programs under his direction at various times included: Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow [ACOT]; Apple Global Education [AGE]; Visualization and Simulation; Business Learning and Performance Support; and Multimedia Authoring Tools. Responsibilities included oversight of over three-dozen employees, including Apple Distinguished Scientists and numerous engineers with advanced degrees, with annual budget responsibility in excess of $6M. Dr. Miller's industry experience includes Texas Instruments' Central Research Labs [TI], where Miller established its widely recognized Machine Intelligence research program, emphasizing educational applications, expert systems, natural language processing. Miller later co-founded Computer*Thought Corporation (Dallas, TX), a high-tech TI spinoff backed by venture capital, where he led the design of an advanced instructional system to retrain software engineers for the Ada programming language, then being implemented for the International Space Station. Dr. Miller's teaching experience includes the University of Texas (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence; Survey of Knowledge Engineering; Design and Implementation of Programming Languages; Compilers, Assemblers, and Operating Systems; Software Engineering Using Ada; Discrete Structures). He also supervised successful M.S. and Ph.D. candidates at UT and Southern Methodist University. While a graduate student at MIT he served as both Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Artificial Intelligence and LOGO Laboratories, and as a Research Assistant at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. Miller has also taught high school mathematics, computer science, making, and other topics at K12 schools, Community Colleges, and County Offices of Education. He developed and co-delivered a high school CS elective that received University of California "G requirement" approval, for use at multiple schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. In June 2020, Miller, along with Cynthia Solomon and a half-dozen Logo pioneers, published an article, History of Logo, in ACM SIGPLAN's History of Programming Languages journal, describing the early development of this highly influential programming language for children. Logo was made famous by Seymour Papert (1980), in Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas). Miller worked with Papert at MIT and TI; some of Miller's contributions are mentioned in the End Notes of Papert's seminal publication. Mark is President Emeritus of the Silicon Valley Computer Science Teachers Association. He also teaches Python and object-oriented design (Java) in the ALIGN MS program at Northeastern University's San Francisco and Silicon Valley campuses (https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/people/mark-miller/). Previously, he also served as a member of the Computer Science Steering Committee of the San Mateo County Office of Education.

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• Instructor and Maker Project Developer

Mike has a broad set of professional interests and background. After graduating with honors from the US Air Force Academy with a BS in Physics, he was selected as a Hertz Fellow and earned an MS and PhD in the Department of Applied Science (a small graduate school affiliated with UC Davis, but co-located with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). His thesis on computational physics combined computer science and physics, the first of his many interdisciplinary activities. His subsequent Air Force career found him at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, defining large computer systems for logistics, doing computational fluid dynamics, and teaching math and computer science at AFIT, the Air Force's graduate school. After leaving the military, Mike continued a varied career, directing a scientific computer center for Sohio Petroleum, being COO of an early Hollywood startup for CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), and building information-integration tools for oil and gas exploration. He subsequently led software development teams at Apple, IBM Research and Adobe Systems, all of which centered on building personal enablement tools across areas such as mobile devices, multimedia, usability research, and assistive technology. More recently Mike has returned to combined hardware and software projects, creating wearable wireless devices. As a private consultant, he has designed, built and programmed these devices for uses as diverse as keeping track of kids in the park, helping blind people navigate around their neighborhoods, tracking the motion of disabled vets, and several medical applications. Now at Learningtech.org, he brings this experience to bear in leading Maker Space classes, and development of integrated hardware and software for teaching kids maker skills and robotics.

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• Consultant

It is with the deepest regret that Learningtech.org notes the passing of Sue Bragato, on 5 January 2005, after an heroic, two-year struggle against advanced stage metastatic breast cancer. Sue was an inspiration to everyone she knew. Sue Bragato established CANEC in 1994 as the recognized state association for California charter schools. She started her work in the Charter School Movement as a founder of California's first charter school, the San Carlos Charter Learning Center. Through the Charter Friends National Network Ms. Bragato helped establish the formation of the charter school states associations network. As a charter school leader she was awarded the 1997 Hart Vision Award for her support of the California charter school movement. For seven years she chaired the California Charter Schools Conference. She also served as a conference planner for the first three National Charter School Conferences, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Bragato also sat on the Board of Directors of two nonprofit organizations, BOK Ranch and Learningtech.org, and was a 4-H leader in her community. She was a graduate of Pepperdine University where she received degrees in political science and journalism, and was a former White House and Congressional intern.

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• Board Member, Learningtech.Org

Ted's PhD thesis demonstrated that AI could be used in educational software to make project based learning more enjoyable and productive. It is the basis of the OS/2 help system. Ted has created many project based technology based teaching technologies ranging from PBS's online LivingCenter to work with people with dementia to Polling Place Support tool created to train and support voting workers. Ted has run project base teaching experiences for many communities from classrooms to museums to universities. Ted's work strives to demonstrate considerate technology, in which people's intentions are recognized and respected. A creator and tester of new scenarios for working with computing systems, his design practice includes consulting wherever innovation is possible. Ted often loves to visit universities to give talks collaborate and mentor. Ted spent five years as Director of Considerate Systems research at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. He was also responsible for developing the campus. Ted spent ten years as an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory directing the Context Aware Computing group. His successes at targeted product creation and enhancement led to his role of IBM Fellow and director of User Systems Ergonomics Research at IBM. He also worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs. Ted's innovation has been responsible for successful products. For example, his design of the TrackPoint in-keyboard pointing device is used in many notebook computers. His visualization and visual interface work has made impacts in the performance of the PowerPC, usability in OS/2, ThinkPad setup, Google maps, etc. Ted's work has resulted in numerous awards, patents, and papers, and has often been featured in the press. Ted was given the American Association for People with Disabilities Thomas Paine Award for his work on voting technology, and was co-recipient of the Computer Science Policy Leader Award for Scientific American 50.

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• Senior E - Rate Consultant

Tom Wilkerson has been with Learningtech.org since 2001. Tom is a first-rate network administrator and desktop technician. Tom is Apple certified on Mac OS X. Tom has probably cloned more Macintoshes in K-12 schools in the Bay area than any other single individual. His experience prior to joining included extensive experience in customer support roles relating to technology. Through this experience, Tom has become a patient teacher and excellent troubleshooter. His hobbies include automotive customization and audio engineering; Tom is an expert on Pro Tools, yet still enjoys getting children started with Garage Band. He also has considerable experience teaching troubleshooting skills to middle school students through our summer camps. Tom also plays a major role in providing technical support both internally and for our IT Services clients. These technical skills, along with many years of E-Rate application experience, make Tom a key member of our E-Rate team.