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Learning Innovation Conversations: Leah Buechley
Start Date: 5/23/2017Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Date: 5/23/2017End Time: 8:00 PM

Event Description
Leah Buechley is a designer, engineer, and educator whose work explores intersections and juxtapositions–of “high” and “low” technologies, new and ancient materials, and masculine and feminine making traditions. Her inventions include the LilyPad Arduino toolkit. From 2009-2014, she was a professor at the MIT Media Lab where she founded and directed the High-Low Tech group. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Ars Electronica Festival, and the Exploratorium, and has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Popular Science, and Wired. Leah received a PhD in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BA in physics from Skidmore College. At both institutions she also studied dance, theater, fine art, and design.

The conversation will be moderated by Youngmoo Kim, Director of the ExCITe Center and will include opportunity for audience questions/discussion. A reception with light refreshments will follow at 7:30pm.

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Contact Information:
Name: Kara Lindstrom
Phone: 215.571.4125
Email: klindstrom@drexel.edu
Headshot of speaker, Leah Buechley
Location:
Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Center
Drexel University
3126 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Everyone
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  • Free Food
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