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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">[[File:HeadshotWilson.jpg|thumb|HeadshotWilson.jpg]]</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 17px;">I am currently the Director of the Innovation Lab at Ross School, a private boarding school in East Hampton, New York. In July 2015, I graduated from the University of Georgia with a PhD in Learning, Design, and Technology in the College of Education. I have a background in computer science with a BS from Georgia Tech and a MS from Virginia Tech.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">My research involves studying and developing informal learning environments that exposes business, engineering, art, technology, and science students to interdisciplinary collaboration, challenge-based learning, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. I hope to uncover guidelines to what tools, spaces, and contexts are needed for a successful environment. It is expected that implementation of these learning environments would increase students' engagement in solving society's toughest problems.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">My mission is to empower people to make great products that affect the world.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Serving as UIF Since:''' Spring 2013</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 17px;"></span>
<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''School:''' University of Georgia</span>
<span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51, 51, 51)medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 17px;">Past E&I initiatives'''What he does now:''' Director of Innovation at [https://www.gemsworldacademy-chicago.com/ GEMS World Academy in Chicago] (Starting August 2018)</span>
'''<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>'''<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">'''What that means''': I design and help other teachers design learning experiences that incorporate technology, design thinking, entrepreneurship, and innovation for middle and high school students. </span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">'''Contact him about:''' designing learning experiences, K-12 education, makerspaces, interdisciplinary learning, graduate school, entrepreneurship.....pretty much anything!</span>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 17px;">In July 2015, I graduated from the University of Georgia with a PhD in Learning, Design, and Technology in the College of Education. I have a background in computer science with a BS from Georgia Tech and a MS from Virginia Tech.</span><br/><br/><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">My research involves studying and developing informal learning environments that expose business, engineering, art, technology, and science students to interdisciplinary collaboration, challenge-based learning, entrepreneurship, and design thinking. I hope to uncover guidelines to what tools, spaces, and contexts are needed for a successful environment. It is expected that implementation of these learning environments would increase students' engagement in solving society's toughest problems.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">My mission is to empower people to make great products that affect the world.</span></span></span>
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*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">Designed an Worked with the Office of the Vice President of Research to expand the Thinc@UGA (thinc.uga.edu) initiative, which seeks to promote entrepreneurship and innovation website for bringing awareness to the resources and programs available on campus for learning about entrepreneurship, developing ideas, and growing student businessesto include events beyond Thinc Week. </span></span></span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">Created a make-a-thon series called "thinc-a-thon" which fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, design thinking, and entrepreneurship among students from all disciplines and levels.</span></span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">Designed an entrepreneurship and innovation website for bringing awareness to the resources and programs available on campus for learning about entrepreneurship, developing ideas, and growing student businesses. </span></span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">Collaborated with Science Library to build the university's first makerspace.</span></span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">Assisted in the creation of a Council of Economic Engagement with the purpose of building a better UGA through expansion, promotion , and enhancement of university economic engagement and the role students play in it.</span></span>