Christine Braun.

Building learning environments where students imagine, design, engineer, prototype, and build real things — from robots and go-karts to fashion shows and mobility devices.

CurrentlyChief Creative Officer, Crescanova Labs
PreviouslyDirector - REEF Maker Space, Harvard SEAS
Maker Space Manager, The Nueva School
Co-Founder, R4K2
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Recognition

Highlights
2020
MIT Excite Award winner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016
FIRST World Championship coach
FIRST Robotics Competition
2014
Champ Bot Challenge winners
Champlain Maker Faire

Selected work

Six of many
Student fashion show featuring engineered wearable design at Harvard SEAS
2022 · Harvard SEAS REEF

Harvard fashion show

Engineering meets the runway — student-designed wearable tech and material innovation on display.

Student-built crayon-themed go-kart at the starting line
2020 → · Annual tradition

Go-karts: a legacy of learning

Students design, build, and race their own karts — a yearly capstone in fun and fundamentals.
Christine with two students on Disney+ Shop Class set
2019 · Featured

Disney+ Shop Class

Coached student makers through builds featured on the Disney+ original series.
Toddler in a modified ride-on car surrounded by middle school student engineers
2018 · Mobility · Nueva iLab

Go Baby Go

Middle schoolers engineered modified ride-on cars to give toddlers with mobility differences independence.
Robo-Raptors team working on their competition robot
2016 · World championship

FIRST Robotics

Coached the Robo-Raptors to the FIRST Robotics World Championship stage.

Students carrying their giant duct-tape dragon-bot at Champlain Maker Faire
2014 · Champlain Maker Faire

Champ Bot Challenge winners

Co-led the team that took home first place at the inaugural challenge — the start of it all.

Journey

A decade of making
2024 →

Chief creative officer

Crescanova Labs · Launched the studio in 2025

2022

Director, REEF

Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

2017

iLab manager

The Nueva School

2014

Co-founder

R4K2 — Robots 4 Kids