Organizing Team
Dale Joachim
Dale organizes yearly summer camps in the US for children ages 9-14. Following the 2009 earthquake in Haiti, he drafted and co-taugh a course at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) entitled New Media Projects for Haiti through which students proposed and presented (in Haiti) technology projects relevant for Haiti. Dale has advised the One Laptop Per Child organization on the deployment of laptops in Haiti. He has led several signal, audio, speech and music processing research projects as a faculty at Tulane University and MIT. Dale holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and enjoys occasional piano performances.
Spencer Russell
Spencer Russell is an eclectic artist and engineer who has done sound and video design for sold-out theatre performances in New York, marathon trans-atlantic tours as a double-bassist, and ran a software and hardware development team that deployed multi-thousand unit building automation systems. He is currently working and studying at the MIT Media Lab, where his research interests range from large-scale wireless mesh networks and sensor infrastructure to audio spacialization and augmented musical performance systems. Spencer holds a BA from Oberlin College and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. Spencer will not be present in 2015 but has authored the electronics and Arduino experiments.
David Fleurimond
David is an administrator, educator and high school physical education teacher in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. He has organized several large scale regional and state-wide events. David is renown for his ability to organize, clearly communicate and facilitate learning events for large groups. He has as well organized science technology summer camps in the US.
GianMichele Toglia
GianMichele is an engineer and staff member of ESIH. [more to come]