"The Tinkering Workshop" Book Launch and Events in SoCal

[Ryan Jenkins]

Dear Maker Educators, 

I'm writing to share some free educator resources and hands-on tinkering events related to my new book, The Tinkering Workshop which is a playful guide to exploring art, science and technology using everyday materials. I hope that the book will be a great source of initial ideas for makerspace educators that then can be adapted and remixed to fit with your own individual settings. 

As a starting point, we created an educators guide to accompany the book which provides a few initial ideas about how these projects might look with different age groups, time constraints and environments:

The Tinkering Workshop Educators Guide

The book launched on October 15th and I've spent the last week in the Bay Area hosting tinkering workshops at Redwood City Library, The Exploratorium and Maker Faire. Now I'm down in Southern California and have three more open workshops to try out projects from the book and have conversations about how to start tinkering at home and in different educational settings. Here's the plan for the coming week. 

10/22 at MOXI in Santa Barbara (1:30-4:00pm) *requires museum admission

10/23 at Timbre Books in Ventura (4:00-6:00pm)

10/25 at ReDiscover Center Mid-City in Los Angeles (3:00-8:00) 

For more information about the events you can check out the website. 

https://wonderfulidea.co/events

It would be great to connect with any of the members of this community who are in-person here in California this week! As well, I would be really happy to chat more with members of this group who could be interested to try out some of the explorations from the book in your makerspaces, libraries and classrooms. 

Friendly greetings, 

Ryan Jenkins

[Elizabeth Leddy]

Thank you for sharing! I just ordered a copy. I am always looking for more ideas for our innovation lab and Makerspace. I am really interested in the "linkage party" activity and seeing how that can scaffold for our Hummingbird Robotic kits to add more movement to our designs. 

Elizabeth

[BRUCE WYMAN]

I just ordered a copy as well. Congrats on the book, Ryan!

Bruce

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