SSB is partnering with MIT to bring a FabLAB (Fabrication Laboratory) to the South Bronx. FabLAB is an international project started at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms to bring "digital fabrication", the modern means of production, to ordinary people in order to solve local community problems. Ideas are conceived and designed in the digital world, and can be realized in the physical world through the FabLAB.
Equally as important, these ideas, designs, and schematics can be shared digitally through the international FabLAB network as a kind of "Open Source Hardware."

As FabLAB ™ Technology Coordinator Jon ensures that the SSB FabLAB is operational and is connected to a broad community through cross-collaborative digital media. The Lab Coordinator maintains a living online handbook providing a break down of FabLAB technology into user-friendly concepts to broaden the outreach of the SSB FabLAB.
The Lab Coordinator works with SSB staff to ensure that the FabLAB's capabilities are considered in all programmatic endeavors, and with educational instructors to ensure successful implementation of curriculum and project-based educational sessions

Jon has a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); where he worked under Professor Neil Gershenfeld as an undergraduate research assistant in the Center for Bits and Atoms, the cross-campus interdisciplinary research consortium that began the international FabLAB program. Exposed to a diverse research environment that brought together computer scientists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists, Jon grew an appreciation not only for science and engineering, but also the sharing and collaboration that is at the heart of the FabLAB project.

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