Peter Hubbard

Advisory Board Member

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Peter is a retired 5th-grade teacher leader from Seattle Public Schools who is still actively working to improve education. Over the years as part of his math instruction he invented a paper-folding design system in collaboration with his students which ended up being called Tetragami. Specially scored brightly colored cardstock allows for a wild variety of building blocks that can be used for creative designing. He was also an educational innovator in other ways. He coordinated several initiatives within the school district including a Young Inventor's Network, a Frontiers of the 21st Century pilot project, and the Green Team Network and Make a Difference Service Learning Teams.

He's a strong believer that schools should be more closely connected to the real world, that curriculum should be multidisciplinary, and that we should really work towards a radical re-imagining of how education is organized. He has quite a few ideas of how to go about doing that and for that reason, he was invited to speak at the inaugural conference of MIT Solve back in 2015.

Tetragami also won the best workshop for kids award at the Seattle Mini-Maker Faire back in 2013. He is also leading a Tetragami Family Fun workshop at the MoMath Museum in New York on June 12, 2022.