Joe Diaz is an advocate of hands-on STEAM activities for K-12 students and educators. An alumnus of MIT’s Scheller Teacher Education Program, he has spent time both inside and outside of the classroom, developing programs and activities that promote formulating new ideas and iterating when the process doesn't always go as planned. For the past five years, he has worked with MIT Open Learning to bring MIT’s learning approach to middle and high school students and teachers via international efforts including the MIT STEAM Camp and MIT Full STEAM Ahead projects that have taken place in a variety of locations including Hong Kong, China, Greece, Spain, and Morocco.