DESCRIPTION: Be a human-centered inventor! Each session, we'll meet a different user or problem, and participants will invent new products, spaces, or solutions for these users. Design-thinking is an underlying theme for this club. From a polar bear cub who needs a new shelter, to an astronaut visiting the moon for her first time, a scuba diver who needs new tools for exploring and collecting treasure, and a bot to help with household chores - we’ll think of solutions, build them, test them out, and refine them. By the end of the program, participants will have their very own suite of inventions to present! Apart from empathy-building skills, fine-motor prototyping, and communication practice, we'll also cover a mix of design, electronics, and engineering topics including sensors, inputs and outputs, pulleys, solar power, motors, and more.
Recommended for ages 5-8
FORMAT: In Person at Hunter Elementary School (71 E 94th St, New York, NY 10128)
DATES: Mondays at 2:45-4:00pm, from Sept. 11th to Jan. 29th (skipping 9/25, 10/9, 12/25, 1/1, 1/15 for school holidays)
LEARN ABOUT
Podcasting, animation, producing and editing videos
Engineering and craft skills to build things
Design thinking, problem solving, building solutions, and empathy (designing things with needs of others in mind)
PRICE: $700/semester
