Amanda Strawhacker

Early childhood author and educator

Amanda Strawhacker is an early childhood author and educator whose research in school curriculum and product design focuses on introducing children to novel STEAM fields in playful, developmentally appropriate ways. She is the STEAM coordinator at Schechter Boston school in Massachusetts and has contributed to the development of commercially available educational STEAM products (including the KIBO robotics kit, the ScratchJr programming app, and others). Dr. Strawhacker is a speaker and writer whose work has been disseminated through outlets like TEDx@BeaconStreet. She holds a master’s and PhD in child study and human development, and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Tufts University, and learns even more about playful learning every day from her fierce and fun-loving young daughter.