Wendy Harrop

Wendy Harrop has been a public school teacher for 22 years. She taught in the classroom for 11 years, in Illinois, California and Wisconsin. Most recently, she has been a technology integrator and gifted specialist in the Oconomowoc Area School District, in Oconomowoc Wisconsin, where she has worked for 11 years. Her focus is on integrating technology in education, particularly in the area of makerspaces. She worked with a team to design and implement a makerspace in her k-4 school in 2013, and...See more

Wendy Harrop has been a public school teacher for 22 years. She taught in the classroom for 11 years, in Illinois, California and Wisconsin. Most recently, she has been a technology integrator and gifted specialist in the Oconomowoc Area School District, in Oconomowoc Wisconsin, where she has worked for 11 years. Her focus is on integrating technology in education, particularly in the area of makerspaces. She worked with a team to design and implement a makerspace in her k-4 school in 2013, and since then has become passionate about integrating making and STEAM, particularly computer programming, across the curriculum. She resides in Waukesha, Wisconsin with her husband, also an educator, and her two sons. See less