Tinkering School: Think, Make, Tinker

The Tinkering School offers an exploratory curriculum designed to help kids - ages 7 to 17 - learn how to build things. By providing a collaborative environment in which to explore basic and advanced building techniques and principles, we strive to create a school where we all learn by fooling around. All activities are hands-on, supervised, and at least partly improvisational.

Grand schemes, wild ideas, crazy notions, and intuitive leaps of imagination are, of course, encouraged and fertilized.

Details
Sessions are limited to 8 tinkerers.
The cost is $1200/week.
To reserve a spot, half must be paid in advance.
Cancellations must be received at least 30 days before the session starts.
Parents/guardians will be expected to complete the big scary liability waiver.

Bio
Tinkering School is taught primarily by me, Gever Tulley, aided of course by my indispensable wife Julie Spiegler and the inimitable Robyn Orr. By day, I am a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe, writer, and practicing sculptor. Julie is the XD Playground Monitor at Adobe (and we both teach paragliding at the Advanced Paragliding School), and Robyn’s secret identity is still kept secret but she only uses her super-organizational skills for good and the Tinkering School.

I started the Tinkering School because it’s the kind of thing I would like to have been able to go to myself.