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Sherry Lassiter

President & CEO The Fab Foundation, USA

Sherry Lassiter is one of the architects of the MIT global initiative for field on-site technology development, the Fab Lab program. A Fab Lab, or as users like to call it, fabulous laboratory, is a rapid prototyping platform for technical education, innovation and personal expression. The Fab Lab network includes over 1,750 digital fabrication facilities in 100 countries.

Lassiter is Director of the Fab Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to building technical capacity in a locality, improving individuals’ abilities to develop themselves and their communities and bringing access to tools and knowledge that cultivate and support innovative practices.

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Higher education

Case session

Channel 6

Problem-oriented learning and team training

“Forget everything you were taught at university” is a common refrain heard by graduates when they enter the world of work. It is not the...

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Bayan Konirbayev Advisor to the Akim of Almaty on digitalization issues and technical advisor to Global DTC PTe Ltd, Kazakhstan

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Sherry Lassiter President & CEO The Fab Foundation, USA

Sergey Saltsukan Director, Center for Continuing Education and Retraining of the Advanced Engineer School “Digital Engineering”, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia

Yuliya Astafyeva Manager for cooperation with universities, School 21, Russia

Carissa Little Associate Dean, Global and Online Education, School of Engineering Executive Director, Stanford Center for Professional Development and Stanford Online, USA

Nikolay Khlebnikov Director, Institute of Fundamental Education, UrFU, Ural Federal Univesity named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (UrFU), Russia

Sherry Lassiter President & CEO The Fab Foundation, USA

Yuliya Astafyeva Manager for cooperation with universities, School 21, Russia

Carissa Little Associate Dean, Global and Online Education, School of Engineering Executive Director, Stanford Center for Professional Development and Stanford Online, USA

Nikolay Khlebnikov Director, Institute of Fundamental Education, UrFU, Ural Federal Univesity named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (UrFU), Russia

Sherry Lassiter President & CEO The Fab Foundation, USA

Yuliya Astafyeva Manager for cooperation with universities, School 21, Russia

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Higher education

Workshop

Channel 6

Expanding educational opportunities: Fab Labs in schools and universities

We would like to introduce you to Sherry Lassiter - President and CEO of Fab Lab, USA. She is one of the architects of MIT’s global initiative to...

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Sherry Lassiter President & CEO The Fab Foundation, USA

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School education

Panel discussion

Channel 4

Meeting tomorrow: Schoolchildren and the labor market of the future

Just yesterday a cover was drawn by a designer, today it is done by a neural network, and such changes are occurring in all areas. The labor market...

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