Research/Areas of Interest
Rebecca is passionate about making technology education playful and approachable for K-8 classrooms through a variety of approaches, including hands-on workshops, game design, illustration/animation and more.
Education
BFA Visual Communication, University of Delaware, 2016
Biography
Rebecca Attia is a full-stack education designer and informal STEM educator with a passion for hands-on learning. She began her career by designing and facilitating engineering and computer science workshops at the Children’s Creativity Museum and the Boston Museum of Science. Rebecca then led the Learning Design team at iRobot Education, where she developed a K-12 robotics curriculum for three different educational robots and programming platforms, also serving as the UI designer for the iRobot Coding software team. Currently, at the Center for Engineering Education Outreach (CEEO), she focuses on curriculum design and collaboration with industry partners.
CEEO Responsibilities
Collaborate with industry partners to explore hands-on computer science and engineering curriculum design approaches.