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Nick Normal

Nick Normal

Head of , College Laboratory Technician
Makerspace, User Experience (UX)
Phone: (718) 997-3712
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Education

    • BA (Honours) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.


Biography

Nick Normal is an artist & maker. From St. Louis, he studied abroad at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, merging art & technology into his studio practice. Since moving to NYC he鈥檚 worked for numerous 鈥#ArtsTech鈥 organizations including Dorkbot, Swimming Cities, & Location One, among others. He launched the education platform at Flux Factory, facilitating skill-sharing classes for the public. He worked for Maker Media, co-organizing 7 flagship Maker Faire events in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park at the NY Hall of Science, while also penning 85 鈥榟ow-to鈥 project-articles for the company鈥檚 bi-monthly Make: magazine. Most recently he worked for Adafruit Industries, designers and manufacturers of open-source hardware. He鈥檚 lived in Long Island City for 14 years and likes to explore Queens and the other boroughs on his Bianchi D2 Cross.

He is the Head of , the new hands-on learning lab at 红豆视频 and is a co-PI on NSF Award# 1928565 鈥淎n Interdisciplinary Design Program: Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education.鈥


Selected Publications and Links

    • NSF Award# , 鈥淎n Interdisciplinary Design Program: Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education鈥
    • , Make: Projects (sample how-to project and one of my favorites to teach electronics to beginners)