Maker • Educator • Innovator
JAYMES DEC
Building makers, makerspaces, and maker mindsets since 2007.
Director of Innovation • Author • International Speaker
Founder of MIT-certified Fab Labs
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2025 • AWARD
World's Best School Prize
Franklin School wins the World's Best School Prize for Innovation—the first US school to receive this honor.
Learn more→2011 • PROJECT
MIT-Certified Fab Lab
Founded the first MIT-certified Fab Lab at an all-girls school, now expanded to four makerspaces.
View project→2017 • PUBLICATION
Tech DIY
Co-authored soft circuit activity book for younger children and parents, published by Make Media.
Explore book→“Learning is most effective when individuals are actively engaged in making tangible objects in the real world.”
— Constructionist Learning Philosophy
The Journey
From tinkering in basements to leading international innovation initiatives—a career built on the belief that making matters.
2025
World’s Best School Prize
2021
Franklin School Founded
2012
TEDxNYED Speaker
2011
First Fab Lab at Girls School
2009