DevTech Team: Louise Flannery

Louise is a research scientist and coordinator on one of DevTech's new projects: Scratch Jr. She defended her Master's thesis in September, 2011, on the relationship between children's level of cognitive development and their approaches to and achievement in programming with CHERP. She spent the last two years working on the TangibleK Robotics Project. She is interested in how children use technology from a cognitive perspective and in designing new technologies that afford rich and accessible materials for construction and exploration.

In between undergraduate and graduate degrees at Eliot-Pearson, Louise taught toddlers, preschoolers, and second grade math and science in Cambridge.