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Frank Vloet

Frank VloetLab Lead Maker Education Lab

Frank Vloet used to work at Waag as the lead of Maker Education Lab. This lab is focused on teaching people so-called 21st century skills: through digital fabrication and entrepreneurship, people of all ages can experiment and enhance their creativity, in order to find a (better) place in society.

Before he became a lab lead, Frank worked as maker educator at Waag. He teached at FabSchool in the Waag and at Maakplaats 021. He also worked as manager at Fab Lab London and the Creative Residency Program 72U.

Closed projects

Culturele Maakkaravaan

culturele maakkaravaan
Maker Education Lab
Waag collaborates with the City of Amsterdam in the project Culturele Maakkaravaan to explore and improve the relationship between Amsterdam citizens and the digital city.

AI AI Barbie

AI AI Barbie
Creative Learning Lab
In 'AI AI Barbie', new frameworks for responsible use of AI in toys are being drawn up together with parents, children and experts.

Maakplaats 021 Fellowship

Maakplaats 021 fellowship
Maker Education Lab
The Maakplaats 021 Fellowship programme is a unique training for primary and secondary education teachers from Amsterdam.

Waag Makerbox

Makerbox Waag
Maker Education Lab
By making it yourself, you learn better how 'things' and 'systems' are put together and you can get creative with technology yourself.

Maker festival

FabLearn Maakfestival Eindhoven
Maker Education Lab
MakerEducation.nl and Maker Faire Eindhoven presented the best that the maker industry and maker education have to offer.

DO IT

DO IT - Maakplaats 021
Maker Education Lab
DO IT contributes to youth employment and to create new jobs in the social economy by nurturing in young pupils seeds for active social innovation: entrepreneurial mind-sets, knowhow and skills.

Doing it together science

Do-It-Together Science Bus
Open Wetlab
Citizens have a major role to play in addressing the challenges to a sustainable future. It is by ‘doing science together’ that we combine our resources and expertise to raise awareness, build capacity, and innovative lasting solutions grounded in society.

Platform Maker Education

Platform Maker Education
Maker Education Lab
Platform Maker Education gave an impuls to the bottom-up maker education movement in The Netherlands.

Teacher Maker Camp

Teacher Maker Camp
Maker Education Lab
Waag’s Creative Learning Lab annually organizes a professional development course for teachers in maker education.

FabSchool

FabSchool
Maker Education Lab
Learning by making. With a focus on creativity, technology and entrepreneurship. That is what the project FabSchool is about.