November 29, 2023 Fab Academy 2024

The Fab Foundation Announces Fab Academy 2024 — ‘Learn How to Make (Almost) Anything’

Are you looking for an adventure to spark your professional curiosity? Do you want to ignite your passion for learning, making, and doing? Reinvent yourself—and the world around you—at Fab Academy.

Fab Academy is a fast-paced, intensive education program dedicated to the exploration of advanced manufacturing techniques and methodologies. A multi-disciplinary and hands-on learning experience, this five-month course teaches students to envision, design, and prototype innovative solutions through digital fabrication. Since 2007, the program has transformed learners of all ages and backgrounds into active problem solvers building sustainable communities across the world.

“If you empower somebody to produce…it fundamentally changes how an economy works. What are the implications of anybody being able to make anything?”

— Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms & Co-Founder of Fab Academy

Responding to the evolving needs of industry and the demands of modern society, Fab Academy has pioneered a global education movement that challenges traditional approaches to learning. This has resulted in an outgrowth of jobs, projects, businesses, and initiatives by shifting the linear industrial paradigm toward a circular, distributed, and locally productive model. With our globally distributed approach to education, students are first gathered in peer groups at local Fab Labs for interpersonal working sessions. Each regional group is then connected in an online campus for interactive video classes and content sharing with classmates from over 65 distinct Fab Academy nodes around the world. The international faculty gives video lectures, supervises academic content, and guides student research. Hands-on support in the Fab Labs is provided by instructors—experts in their respective fields—who supervise and evaluate certificates, develop and disseminate instructional material, and assist with projects.

Our program is open to students, professionals, and lifelong learners across all disciplines who are looking to broaden the scope of their practice. While some prior knowledge of design, electronic programming, and web development may be helpful, participants from every walk of life are welcome, regardless of experience. To ensure success in the course, however, we ask that applicants be proficient in English, both written and spoken.

Fab Academy 2024 begins in January. If you’re ready to kickstart an agile and flexible career journey, apply today!

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The Fab Academy program is powered by the Fab Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to regional capacity-building and growth of the international Fab Lab Network. If you have questions about this program or our work more broadly, please contact us directly: communications@fabfoundation.org

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