Nick Smerker works at Penn State University where he supports faculty and students through Creative Learning Initiatives, a service of University Libraries’ Teaching and Learning with Technology group. His work focuses on storytelling through media assignments, exploration via immersive technologies and design via making tools. Nick has worked in instructional technology for twenty years both at Penn State as well as Washington College.

Nick supports ten Penn State campuses and students in the City Semester program at the Penn State Center in Pittsburgh.