My Community Service Scholarship

Hello there!

My name's Bennett, and I'm an opportunity-hungry designer/educator fueled by an incessant desire to pursue quality and uniquity in everything I create. 

I'm now enrolled in Harvard University's Master of Education Program in Technology, Innovation, and Education. My goal is to combine seemingly incompatible ideas within my research and in doing so fill in (or even create) unseen gaps in design education fieldwork. My logic behind this is that, from what I've gathered, innovation is often the result of forming unheard–of relationships. Thus, in the pursuit of what this master's program is meant to do—advance the field of education—I want to (oxymoronically) follow suit and do something that's never been done. 

I try to pursue well–crafted unusualness in everything I do. In my free time I enjoy self–publishing illustrated books with bizarre plots, filming surrealist skits for an online video series, experimenting with hand drawn stylization methods, creating illustrations that convey metaphysics concepts, ideating guerrilla industrial designs, submitting humorous essays to academic blogs, and drafting curriculums for imaginary classes. 

My (too many!) extracurriculars include cartooning for the Harvard Crimson, unicycling for the MIT Juggling Club, proposing a television show for Cambridge Community Television, and creating a creativity-catalyzing application for because I said I would. This scholarship will lighten the financial load of living in such an inflated city as Cambridge, Massachusetts; I will put the money to good use, by purchasing some design software to help me in one of my newest projects I call the 'Inverse Skateboard.' It's top-secret for now... but come back later and you'll see what I'm talking about.

If you feel that we could work together on something, anything at all, please contact me! Let's build something together.

Some photos of me (top to bottom):

Me petting a kangaroo after presenting at a conference in Australia, me with the Great Craig Vogel, my Master of Design thesis poster, and my poster's Directors' Choice Award!