Mitchel Resnick

LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at MIT Media Lab

Cambridge, MA

About

Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, develops new technologies and activities to engage young people from diverse backgrounds in creative learning experiences. His Lifelong Kindergarten research group developed the Scratch programming software and online community, the world's leading coding platform for kids. Recently, the group launched OctoStudio, a mobile coding app that enables young people to create projects anytime anywhere. The group has collaborated with the LEGO Company on the development of new educational ideas and products, including LEGO Mindstorms robotics kids. Resnick co-founded the Clubhouse global network after-school learning centers, where youth from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies. Resnick earned an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton, and a Masters and PhD degrees in computer science from MIT. He was awarded the McGraw Prize in Education in 2011 and the LEGO Prize in 2021. His book *Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play* won the 2017 Prose Award for Educational Practice.

Education

Princeton University

B.A., Physics / 1978

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.S., Computer Science / 1988

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Computer Science / 1992

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