Clare Bhakta Email & Phone Number

Stockton, CA

Open Innovation Centers is a group of educators and industry professionals with a mission to uplift the local community by nurturing innovators and creators. Our vision is to establish a network of innovation centers where learning, employment, and play seamlessly integrate, supporting our communities in transformative and engaging ways.

San Joaquin County, California, United States

After a short learning break to strengthen my skills- I returned full time to Ninja Pandas in 2022 to bring all I had learned from working in Invention Ed with Lemelson-MIT to offer local programming and pursue an innovation center to service our local community. I launched Open Innovation as pop up programming to offer invention education programming to.

Cambridge, MA & CA Remote Work

Promote Invention Education and facilitate collaboration between the Lemelson-MIT program and educators supporting Kindergarten through community college learners. Invention education promotes self directed student learning by solving real world challenges important to students and their communities. Currently working on a High School/Community college.

Remote

Worked to create an Invention education curriculum that fuses computer science with invention and sustainable design for high school students.

Lodi, CA

An educational technology company focused on teaching technology and creative problem solving to students from third grade and up. We provide programming locally, working directly with schools, the World of Wonders Science Museum and the Lodi Pubic Library.

Ronald Mcnair High School, Stockton, CA

Created a CTE computer science curriculum Inventing Smart Objects - teaching the basics of code and electronics to high school students. I taught in the classroom for one year and supported other teachers within the district who were teaching the curriculum for an additional year.

Hayward, CA

Prepared and taught Professional Practices for all graduating art majors in graphic design, web design and multi media. Course covers how to create a brand identity consistent across a resume and cover letter, business card, print and web portfolio design. Class lectures cover how to create business proposals, contracts, work for yourself, how to start.

Sunnyvale, CA

Lecturer in Web & Interactive Design Program. Responsible for planning and conducting classes including Professional Practices, Production Planning, Senior Project Development, Interface Design, Beginning Web Design, Digital Branding & Identity.

Founding partner responsible for all business operations, sales and marketing of a three member multi media consulting and app development company. While active on the business side, I was also part of the creative process, generating ideas, finding them funding and bringing them to fruition.

San Francisco Bay Area

Retail Sales manager overseeing teams of 15-17 people in seven day a week, 14 hour a day high trafficenvironment. Responsible for managing personnel including hiring, monitoring, goal setting, disciplinary tasks while driving team to hit or exceed sales goals set by corporate. Tracked inventory and navigated reports and store paperwork. Worked with team to.

San Ramon, CA

Retail Sales manager responsible for meeting sales goals, hiring, training and mentoring a staff of approximately 10 store employees. Our location was in a historically low volume shopping center. I raised sales by starting and conducting Nextel Cafe, a weekly series of classes that taught customers how to use their phones and learn about new technologies.

Oakland, CA

Conducted a public opinion poll and a series of focus groups of likely Oakland voters for the Downtown Oakland Merchants Association. Wrote press releases and fielded print and television news interviews on poll results.

Masters, Multimedia

SlipStream is a five person collaborative thesis project completed in June 2011. Within the period of one year, the SlipStream team.

Bachelor Of Arts, Social & Political Thought