Maker Faire Rochester 2025

James Chin

Home: New York, United States

Education is all about showing students how the world works. It is my mission to show students and teachers that we can use maker projects and real-world physical examples to show students how cool the back end of the world truly is!

James Chin - Maker Faire Rochester 2024

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James Chin

James Chin is a Robotics Engineer and STEM educator. He has led various engineering teams and projects, and has mentored/taught thousands of students over the course of the last several years. Over that time, he has developed many new methods of teaching various STEM concepts to students of all ages, from elementary school through university and beyond. It is his dream to continue to develop and engineer new methods for teaching, while also spreading these ideas out to the community.

What Inspired You to Make This?

STEM Education, and designing things for improving it, has been my passion for most of my life. Having struggled a lot with the typical school system, and finding out through places like the Maker Faire that there are other ways to learn and grow, has changed my life, and I would like to continue spreading that to more kids out in the community.

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