Mon - Wed, December 21-23, 2020 Mon - Wed, December 28-30, 2020 Mon - Fri, January 4-8, 2021 ←Sign ups close Wednesday, 12/30 at 5pm for this camp. Tinkering Camps at reDiscover (Ages 7-12) 9:00am - 3:00pm with breaks built in - No aftercare available Children working in-person at our main facility in Mar...
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Tinkering Club
Ages: 7+ Currently Closed to the Public $20 for first 2 hours, then $10/hour Take a look at Spring 2021 programming to register for in-person and virtual programs! Inquiries regarding private and group class: mail@rediscovercenter.org Tool Training is required for Tinkering Club drop-in. For ages 6 and under, check out our Crafting Corner Program....
Tool Training
Ages 7+ Saturdays and Sundays 2:00-4:00 PM* Currently Closed to the public or by appointment (6 child minimum) Take a look at Spring 2021 programming to register for in-person and virtual programs! Still accepting materials donations. Please email picture of donations to mail@rediscovercenter.org and we will let you know when you can come by to drop...
Crafting Corner
All Ages In person programming currently cancelled. Looking for ideas? Check out our Youtube Channel and Pedagogy Resources Page. Still accepting materials donations. Please email picture of donations to mail@rediscovercenter.org and we will let you know when you can come by to drop off. Creatively reuse our collection of upcycled materials to make fantastical...
Tinkering Party
Ages 7+ $400 for first 8 participants, $25 for each additional participant 120 minutes At this time, we are not holding birthday parties at our facility, facilitating parties at people's homes, or providing programs that use power tools. Thank you for your understanding. *Do fill out the form for virtual birthday parties! Tinkering...
Upcycled Art Party
Ages: 4+ $300 for first 10 participants, $10 for each additional participant 60-90 minutes At this time, we are not holding birthday parties at our facility, facilitating parties at people's homes, or providing programs that use power tools. Thank you for your understanding. *Do fill out the form for virtual birthday parties! reDiscover's...
Pedagogy Resources
These resources are aimed at helping children learn through making in home, school, and community settings. The Tool Use Onesheets are part of our official documentation for Tinkering Programs at reDiscover. Tool Use Onesheets: Hand Saw Jig Saw Power Drill/Driver Chop Saw Drill Press Band Saw Utility Knife Canary Cutter Electric Cardboard Cutter Manual...
Homeschooling Community
reDiscover Center has been serving the California Homeschooling Community since 2016, and is an approved vendor for several Charter Schools. Student Enrichment Funds may be used for all of our programs including Tinkering Club, Tool Training, Crafting Corner, Tinkering School LA classes and camps plus custom workshops. Please call 310-393-3636 for more details, or...
Tinkering @ Home #3: The Tinkering Toolkit
by Barb Noren, Lead Tinkering Facilitator, reDiscover Center There are a few different modes of building that I’ve observed: tinkering, prototyping, and making. These modes are flexible and overlapping, but have different intentions, benefits, and challenges. Tinkering is experimentation; often open-ended, without an end goal. You may reach one, but pure tinkering doesn’t have...
Tinkering @ Home #2: Get Your Kids Involved Early
by Barb Noren, Lead Tinkering Facilitator, reDiscover Center Young minds have a distinct advantage: their minds are flexible in a way that adult minds aren’t. They have great capacity for imagining wild combinations, they’re open to learning new things (it is their full-time job, after all), and they are capable of extremely inventive solutions....