Brycen hails from the Washington, D.C. area of the United States and grew up bouncing around international schools like most of his students. He has been teaching educational technology and design thinking skills for the past 16 years and brings another 10 years of industry experience from the field of graphic and web design for companies such as The Yellow Pages and HERSHEY’s Chocolate. Brycen is currently pursuing how technology can be used more effectively to personalize the experience of our students. He is interested in researching and prototyping adaptive learning / AI platforms to help realize a more student-centered curriculum.