Developed an Open-Source STEM Education Platform
MIT Media Lab
Developed an open-source STEM education platform that helped teachers fork, remix, and revamp classroom projects.
Category / Type
Open-source education; STEM learning; web platform; curriculum sharing; teacher collaboration; civic/learning technology.
Client / Venture / Internal
Collaborative work with MIT Media Lab.
Context
Teachers and STEM educators often create strong classroom projects, but the work can remain trapped in individual classrooms, folders, or one-off lesson plans. The goal was to create a platform where educators could collaboratively share, adapt, and improve projects.
The project drew from open-source software culture and applied it to education: helping teachers treat lesson plans and STEM activities as living materials that can be forked, remixed, and improved over time.
Wicked Problem
Education innovation is hard to scale when every teacher has to start from scratch.
STEM educators need classroom-ready material, but they also need the freedom to adapt projects to their students, context, tools, and learning goals. A static repository is not enough. The platform needed to support sharing, remixing, attribution, and collaboration without making the experience feel like a developer tool.
The challenge was to translate open-source collaboration patterns into a teacher-friendly education platform.
Solution
Lucas helped develop a web platform for STEM educators to share and collaborate on classroom projects.
The platform enabled teachers to fork, remix, and revamp projects, turning lesson plans into reusable, adaptable educational resources. Educators could build on existing work rather than starting from scratch, while still tailoring projects to their own classrooms.
The work connected software development, interaction design, STEM education, and open-source collaboration into a platform model for participatory curriculum development.
Outcome / Impact
The platform supported a more collaborative model for STEM education, helping teachers share and adapt project-based learning materials.
Built an open-source web platform for STEM educators.
Enabled teachers to fork, remix, and revamp classroom projects.
Supported lesson-plan sharing and collaboration.
Translated open-source software patterns into an education workflow.
Role / Contribution
Full-stack engineer and education technology collaborator.
Lucas helped build the platform experience and functionality, translating open-source collaboration mechanics into tools teachers could use for STEM education.
Supporting Proof / Artifacts
MIT Media Lab collaboration.
Open-source STEM education platform.
Teacher project forking, remixing, and revamping workflows.
Lesson-plan sharing and collaboration features.