About Angela Sheehan
Angela is a Product Manager and the E-Textile Education Specialist at SparkFun Electronics, where she focuses on developing content around wearable technologies. She has helped facilitate over 40 e-textile workshops, including sessions at Fashion Institute of Technology, SparkFun National Tour, WEAR (Smart Fabrics), USA Science and Engineering Festival, National Science Teachers Association, STEAM Innovation Summer Institute, E21 conference, and CBS4 Girls & Science events. Angela has been working with e-textiles since 2005. From 2009 - 2013 she maintained a blog called Soft Circuit Saturdays, which documented her continuing work in e-textiles and teaching throughout New England and Maker Faires before joining the SparkFun team.
Experience
Product Manager
SparkFun Electronics
Mar 2017 to present
Education Outreach Coordinator
SparkFun Electronics
Sep 2013 to Feb 2017
Educator / Blogger
Soft Circuit Saturdays
Nov 2009 to Aug 2013
Event Production
SparkFun @ CBS4's Girls & Science Day
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Feb 2014 - Present
Mini Maker Faire Programming Committee Member
Children's Museum of New Hampshire
Sep 2012 to Aug 2013
- Champlain Mini Maker Faire Shelburne, Vermont 2012
- Lewiston-Auburn Mini Maker Faire Lewiston, Maine 2012
- Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire Providence, Rhode Island 2012
- Bay Area Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA 2011/2012
- World Maker Faire Queens, New York 2010
- Boston Area Mini Maker Faire 2010/2011