An avid media specialist, Michelle studied game theory as a part of her Master’s thesis and enjoys using this knowledge daily to empower students, teachers and librarians to create dynamic interactive learning experiences. Michelle is a qualified practicing teacher with eleven years experience teaching students 2-70 years old. Michelle is currently contracted to an International School as a STEAM teacher to Years 6-9, Computing teacher to Year 5 and a Teacher Librarian to Toddlers to Year 9.
Acutely aware of the need to apply technological innovation to education, Michelle has experience running programs as a commercial  enterprise. She had two locations Shop 8 a MakerSpace in Sydney NSW and Innovation Hub  in Nepal. Currently her programs are being developed in China and to date have been taught at Universities.  Her innovative and collaborative  MakerSpace blends traditional arts with digital technology and is an extension from her original Pop Up MakerSpace that was in demand for three years at various locations across Sydney and interstate conferences.
Michelle finds her charity work most rewarding and is establishing a format to role this out regularly. Over the past four years she has donated equipment to various organisations that work with children.
​You can follow Michelle on Twitter @Bibliothecaire3 

Teach Meet Shanghai

​TeachMeets are free, informal, collaborative experiences organised by educators, for educators in order to share ideas and experiences and support each other in our professional growth.

RACER!

RACER is an Arduino based physical computing activity that incorporates simple robotics concepts. RACER has been used globally for the past three years and is in its final phase of production.

Nepal 

Michelle Jensen - Education has been working in Nepal in a variety of ways. With the aim to bring open sourced computing to all who need it most.