Irina Mengqi Wang

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As a Technical Director (TD) at DreamWorks Animation, my movie credits include Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) and Bad Guys 2 (2025). Living in LA has ignited my creative nerves! I had a lot of fun doing animation, photography, and interactive media - well, anything to do with creating experience🪄!

At Tufts, I studied Computer Science💻, Cognitive Science🧠, and Child Studies👶🏻, which led to a passion for Education Technology and creative art. My thesis focused on emphasizing A (Arts) in STEAM education using LEGO robotics kit.

Please don't hesitate contact me if you are interested! And have fun making🤩!

BTW this site is still working in progress! Just like me!!

THESIS

Although STEAM education has received a lot of endorsement from scholars and teachers, it is still a relatively new area that lacks clarity in what students learn. Thus, the current research is interested in analyzing the learning outcomes and perspective shifts reflected through students’ creation process and end-products. Beyond integrating an art activity with photography, the current study embeds an open-ended curriculum design challenge and a peer testing session. Designing a curriculum requires high-level understanding of the design thinking and computational thinking, and through testing curriculum, students can give critical feedback and gain greater understanding of how the peers think.

Study Procedure

Study Material

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Theater (WIP)

June 2024 | Musical | They Havent A Clue

April 2024 | Stage Play | The Neptune Express

CODING

01

Mar 2020

HoleFoods is a fake doughnut shop, and we created a website for it to test our HTML/CSS skills while using JavaScript and jQuery as well. The web app is responsive and mobile friendly with interactive elements.

Hole Foods

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

02

May 2020

Tufts RIDES is a web app that allows students and visitors to see the distance and direction they are from a certain stop as well as the arrival times and a schedule of the shuttle.

Tufts Joey Tracker

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

03

July 2020

Robotics Playground is a static website that displays placemats about robotics challenges. This is a data-driven website. All pages are generated automatically from the database. This supports easy updates for non-technical users.

Robotics Playground

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

Jekyll

PHOTO

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