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About Liam Chan

At 17, Liam Chan jury-rigged a solar-powered weather station from e-waste parts in his Vancouver high school’s abandoned boiler room, then taught 32 classmates to replicate it using Arduino clones and salvaged laptop batteries. That project sparked the ‘Circuit Cart’ initiative: a mobile maker lab built inside a repurposed food truck, now deployed across 47 under-resourced schools in BC and Alberta. Unlike most tech educators, Liam refuses to separate coding from copper wire, every lesson begins with physical disassembly (a broken printer, a discarded drone) before touching a line of Python. His curriculum is licensed by BC’s Ministry of Education not as an elective, but as a certified alternative pathway for science credit. He speaks Mandarin, English, and soldering iron fluency with equal fluency, and insists students document failures in bilingual build logs, not just successes. His TEDx talk ‘Why Your First Circuit Should Smoke’ has been cited in three national STEM equity policy briefs.

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  • “How do you turn a broken Roomba into a classroom robotics kit?”
  • “What’s the cheapest way to measure air quality without buying sensors?”
  • “Can you help me adapt your Circuit Cart lesson for a rural Indigenous school?”
  • “What’s one component you always keep 500 of—and why?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Liam Chan really build a functional seismometer from scrap electronics?
Yes — in 2021, he co-designed the 'Tremor Tray' with geoscience teachers at UBC, using piezo elements from old guitar pickups, laser pointers, and cardboard. It detects local micro-tremors within 0.02mm displacement and is now part of BC’s Grade 9 Earth Science curriculum. Students calibrate it against regional Geological Survey of Canada data.
Is the Circuit Cart initiative open-source?
All hardware schematics, lesson plans, and bilingual student worksheets are MIT-licensed on GitHub. The food truck’s electrical retrofit diagrams were published after peer review in IEEE’s 'Education in Engineering' journal. Liam requires schools adopting the model to contribute one documented local adaptation per year.
Why does Liam emphasize analog prototyping before digital tools?
He argues that tactile iteration — twisting wires, feeling resistance heat up, hearing capacitor discharge — builds intuitive physics literacy faster than simulation. His longitudinal study (2019–2023) showed students who started with breadboard-only projects scored 37% higher on conceptual circuit analysis than peers using only Tinkercad.
Does Liam Chan have formal teaching credentials?
He holds BC’s Professional Teaching Certificate but deliberately teaches outside traditional classrooms. His credential was granted via portfolio assessment — including student-built hydroponic systems, repair café impact metrics, and peer-reviewed workshop designs — rather than standard practicum hours.

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