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 solving environmental issues for our planet, to a polar bear cub who needs a new shelter, 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.
Students will be divided into groups based on their age and skillset.
Recommended for ages 5-12
FORMAT: In Person at PS 33
DATES: Fridays at 3:00-5:00pm (Pick up is from 5-5:30pm), from Feb 9th to Jun. 21st (skipping Feb 23, March 29, Apr 26, Jun 7 for public school holidays)
LEARN ABOUT
Problem solving (this semester we’ll have a focus on sustainability)
Engineering and craft skills to build things
Design thinking, prototyping, and empathy (designing things with needs of others in mind)
PRICE: $54 per session when you sign up for the full semester or $62 per individual session
