Let’s make together.

I love to connect with makers, educators, and youth. I can offer the creation and facilitation of workshops, trainings, lesson plans, curriculum development, presentations, or anything else you can dream of!

My approach to workshop and training sessions are intentionally designed to be immersive and participatory, blending maker experiences, group discussion, reflection time, and peer feedback as well as prioritizing community, connection, screen and body breaks, and accessibility.

I’m especially interested in projects rooted in rehumanizing, anti-racist, and culturally relevant practices. You can see some examples of past projects here.

Examples of workshops:

  • What is Maker Empowerment? Developing a Sensitivity to Design.

  • Making Thinking Visible

  • Rehumanizing STEM through Maker-Centered Learning

  • Centering Joy, Identity, and Making

  • Teaching and learning in the Maker-Centered Classroom

  • Dismantling White Supremacy Culture through Making

  • Developing Maker Mindsets

  • Cultivating a Repair Mindset in K-12 Settings & Beyond

  • Making as Healing & Community-care

  • From Hero to Host: Developing Equity Centered Programs

  • Making Culture in a Makerspace

  • Culturally Responsive Teaching in STEM

  • Creative Coding with Micro:bit

Testimonials from past workshops:

“Making Genius, Centering Joy PD has been one of the most wonderful experiences I have had so far. Starting by rethinking ourselves and unlearning old ways of thinking about racism and privilege was great to help us enter into culturally responsive teaching and maker-centered learning focused on the HILL Model. Dora Medrano Ramos carved an intricate course filled with useful and applicable resources, fun activities, moments of making together, moments to reflect and breathe, and nurtured a community of practice focused on joy itself showing by her example how a humane lesson is done. Thank you for making me feel I found a community of like-minded educators, and for making us feel close even though we were physically separated by miles and miles!“

"It was an amazing experience. This was my first time working with other educators with a maker mindset. The affirmations, feedback and learning spaces made me feel like I belonged there and to not shy away from sharing my ideas and trying out new things, regardless of lack of experience.”

“This was such an amazing opportunity to participate in... I learned a lot more about myself and how I can be an even better advocate for under-represented students and communities through making. Thank you!”

”[This] learning pathway has not only impacted how I teach maker centered learning but how I make and create. Everything I have learned here will be carried throughout my life as an educator and as a person in society. I am so grateful for this opportunity to learn and grow as a maker. Truly a wonderful experience!”

”I learned more about making and consistently brought back new ideas and concepts, particularly around inclusion, cultural relevance, and accessibility. It made me reflect more on my work and think about it from different perspectives.”

“[I appreciated] being able to make/create while socializing with likeminded people, the pace, the low pressure, the caring inviting warm environment and community, the way every part of this day made me think and feel and have gratitude.”