Makerspace
Makerspace is a place where children use a variety of materials to engage in exploring, inventing, and problem solving. Tony Wagner, prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group, shares what teachers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Wagner identifies a pattern—a childhood of creative play leads to deep-seated interests, which in adolescence and adulthood blossom into a deeper purpose for career and life goals. Play, passion, and purpose: these are the forces that drive young innovators.
How can you help?
Innovators use a variety of materials and we will need plenty of them. Many of the materials are things that we are reusing, repurposing, or recycling.
empty toilet paper rolls, fasteners, tubes, dow rods or small pieces of dow rods, boxes, card board, sewing spools, sponges, styrfoam balls, rubber bands, foil ...the possibilities are endless!
In other words - Don't throw anything away! Simply put it in a bag or box and we will use it.
Things to save and send in ......
Dollar Store gems for Makerspace!
Dow rods, sponges, styrofoam balls, and more. Anything you can imagine. Take your kiddo and let their imagination run wild!
Things we are looking for ......
Do you have any of these items around your house that are no longer being used? We would love them in our creative makerspace!