Nick Normal
Education
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- BA (Honours) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
Biography
Nick Normal is an artist & maker. From St. Louis, he studied abroad at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, merging art & technology into his studio practice. Since moving to NYC he’s worked for numerous “#ArtsTech” organizations including Dorkbot, Swimming Cities, & Location One, among others. He launched the education platform at Flux Factory, facilitating skill-sharing classes for the public. He worked for Maker Media, co-organizing 7 flagship Maker Faire events in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park at the NY Hall of Science, while also penning 85 ‘how-to’ project-articles for the company’s bi-monthly Make: magazine. Most recently he worked for Adafruit Industries, designers and manufacturers of open-source hardware. He’s lived in Long Island City for 14 years and likes to explore Queens and the other boroughs on his Bianchi D2 Cross.
He is the Head of QC Makerspace, the new hands-on learning lab at Queens College and is a co-PI on NSF Award# 1928565 “An Interdisciplinary Design Program: Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education.”
Selected Publications and Links
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- NSF Award# 1928565, “An Interdisciplinary Design Program: Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education”
- Dark-Detecing LED, Make: Projects (sample how-to project and one of my favorites to teach electronics to beginners)