
Tinkering
The Art of Tinkering
Tinkering is a hands-on approach to learning (and experiencing) how things work. It's about playing around with materials to explore and invent, Tinkering is critical to developing fine motor & problem solving skills, building peer relationships, and supporting teamwork & collaboration. It promotes the language of skills and higher order thinking.
In many ways, it is an extension of project-based learning, cooperative learning, and inquiry-based learning. Tinkering provides opportunities to investigate, to pull apart, to plan, to rebuild, redesign and construct.
Our Young Inventors Series will also extend to challenge workshops using the innovative Rigamajig building kit. Through this extension, students will think three dimensionally, create physically, and work collaboratively.
Building with the Rigamajig helps students combine imagination with cognitive thinking & invention, embrace process over outcome, and empowers them to be makers of their own world.During each workshop, students will learn the basics of building with the Rigamajig and participate in building challenges week to week.
The Great Create is a deep dive into the world of tinkering, allowing for more elaborate project builds - built over a longer workshop period.
Fueling natural curiosity with a hands-on approach to learning, while providing an opportunity to build confidence, focus, independence, and tenacity.

TINKERING: YOUNG INVENTORS SERIES
MIXED AGE // 4.5-9 YEARS OLD
FRIDAYS, OCT 6 - DEC 8 (NO CLASS NOV 24) // 9 WEEKS
4:00-5:15 // 75 MINUTES
COST: $133 PER MONTH NON-MEMBER (3 PAYMENTS)
$35 MATERIALS FEE

THE GREAT CREATE: AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE
5-10 YO
SATURDAY, SEP 23, 2017
10:00-1:00
Explore various vehicle types, their purposes, their design - working towards building an amphibious vehicle of your own. Each child will leave with their own vehicle to take home!
COST: $90 NON-MEMBER + $40 MATERIALS FEE
Location: romp Bellevue
Kip Beelman Photography