Austin tinkering school kami

Kami loved this idea so much so that she actually contacted Tully and asked him to start a tinkering school in Austin. He said that she should start it.

Around the same time, the Maker Faire came to Austin. The fair is a festival of invention and creativity, featuring robots, inventions, and crafts from home makers and crafters from all over the country.

She began to teach classes out of her backyard on Holly Street, until she finally got a kickstarter campaign together to help her find an official space for the Austin Tinkering School. Despite sky-high rent across the city, Kami was determined to stay in her own neighborhood. I wanted to bring something new and enriching to the people, especially because I live here. Since then, the space has had more than children each summer for camps.

The Tinkering School is a welcoming and inspiring environment where children are allowed to dream up and execute projects on their own terms. During the summer, maker camps have a thematic arc, where campers learn to work in a team on a bigger group project, such as building a roller coaster, or a boat that can go on the water.

With the help of instructors, who are referred to as collaborators kids learn to use power saws, drills, weld, sew, print, create, and play. The Tinkering School has also begun to expand its offers, including sessions in the recording studio, spoon carving, welding lessons, as well as adult classes and parties, to make tinkering and creating even more accessible for everyone.

But it never came back. I continued to follow Make magazine and the big Maker Faire in the Bay Area and I started to notice that all these Mini Maker Faires were popping up all over the world, in different cities.

One night I was sniffing around on the Maker Faire website and I realized that all you had to do was apply to put on a mini Maker Faire in your city, and if they approved you, you were good to go. Thanks to my involvement with the Austin Tinkering School they gave me the go ahead. I had no idea what I was doing, having never put on a big event before, but I knew that Austin needed and wanted a Maker Faire and that if I just got the ball rolling that the people that could help me would come out of the woodwork to make the event happen.

This last year we did it at the Palmer Events Center, and we had over Makers, speakers, and performers, and over attendees. Discovering and working with all these amazing Makers from in or around Austin has just been a further extension of something I have hoped to achieve with Austin Tinkering School, bringing kids and Makers together so that Makers can share skills and share their creations, and so that kids can have an expanded awareness of what is possible.

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Contact Leanna at leanna homeschoolanywhere. We hope to be operational again soon. Thank you. Address Airport Blvd. A Austin, TX Email kami austintinkeringschool. Phone About Austin Tinkering School We are a kid friendly Maker space in East austin with a full wood shop as well as technology laser, 3D printer, and more.