AmHr: Speakers' Bios

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Andrés Monroy-Hernández is a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab. He works in Mitchel Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten Group where he has conceptualized and lead the development of the Scratch Online Community. The community, dubbed the "YouTube of Programming", is a place where thousands of children and novices share their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art created in the Scratch programming language.

Andrés is interested in the development of social software that fosters creative and collaborative learning experiences and empowers people through self-expression.

Andrés worked in the software industry and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received a BS in Electronic Engineering from the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico.