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Early years

On a Wednesday in 1993, in the historical city of Bruges (Belgium), I was born. My parents, both passionate by the sea, took me along with them from the very start. My dad, a captain on larger ships (cargo, tankers…) would come home from his work trips and tell about the new parts of the world that he discovered. My mom, staying at home with the kids is a passionate hobby sailor and would pinpoint every new location on a map. Growing up in that family, sailing and water were a part of our daily life. In my secondary school years I decided to go study humanities, because my mathematics wasn’t good enough.

Passions

After my 18th I developed two big passions: traveling and FabLabs/STEM-education.

As told, both of my parents were quite adventurous, but we never really traveled far. When I got the chance to become an exchange student, I took it! I ended up in Iceland where I felt immediately at home. As travelers will know you can get a culture shock but you can also experience emotional and personal changes. Mine were so bad that after some time I didn’t call Belgium my home anymore. After returning from my Iceland adventures, I grew very restless and the only thing that could ease me was more traveling and FabLabs. During my time in Iceland I both volunteered and worked in the FabLab and got a chance to enroll into the FabAcademy 2013 cycle.

As I realized that FabLabs became the core of me as a person, I decided to go further into it and attend a design school. 3 years after enrolling I graduated as a Industrial Product Designer. Finally free from anything that kept me in Belgium during the studies, I decided to move to Paraguay for 6 months to teach STEM education in the Benjamin Franklin Science Corner. In Belgium, my former internship company was patiently waiting for my return so that they could accept me as one of their employees.

Education and job

  • Secondary education: Humanities (until 2011)
  • AFS exchange program: Framhaldskolin I Vestmannaeyjum, Iceland: humanities and FabLab (2011 - 2012)
  • Exchange program: FabAcademy 2013, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
  • Jobstudent at FabLab Leuven
  • Co-founder of eco-fab-lab Brugge
  • Higher education (PBA): Industrial product design (2014-2017)
  • AFS volunteering project: Volunteer at Benjamin Franklin Science Corner, Asuncion, Paraguay (2017 - 2018)
  • FabManager at De Creatieve STEM

Today I work at the Creatieve STEM, a FabLab in Drongen, Belgium, that develops educational tools for STEM-classes.