Ages: 6+ Weekday Classes run for 5 - 12 weeks per session. Our virtual sessions bring the experience of reDiscover Center to your living room. Using a set of tools and materials curated for flexibility, tinkerers will develop skills to design, prototype, and build their own creations at home. Students will develop a solid...
Meet the Interns: Natalie Guerra
Natalie Guerra is originally from Santa Barbara, CA but has been a Los Angeles resident for over 7 years. She is currently finishing the bachelor program with a major in Psychology, at Antioch University of Los Angeles. She is also starting the Masters program in April to be a Clinical Psychologist. Natalie wants to...
Meet the Interns: Allie Carr
Allie Carr is currently senior art history major at Loyola Marymount University. She is the newest intern at reDiscover Center starting January 2020. Allie grew up in San Diego with a passion for the arts. She attended art classes and camps in the summer, and soon fell in love with art education. Allie is...
Meet the Facilitators: Hanabee Cartagena
Hanabee Cartagena is currently a senior at Otis College of Design majoring in Communication Arts with a minor in Community Arts Engagement. She has been facilitating programs at reDiscover since 2018, first as an ACT Intern, then as a staff member since summer 2018. Hanabee loves working with kids and finds inspiration from their...
The Tools We Use
reDiscover has 10+ years experience putting powerful tools in the hands of kids ages 7-12. We've tried out countless hand and power tools for cutting, joining, and finishing materials for maker projects. Our criteria for a recommended tool are: Is it safe? Is this tool well built, stable, solid, unlikely to be damaged, dulled,...
Meet Volunteers: Alexa Jabbour & Catherine Murray
Reflections upon volunteering for reDiscover Center. "I have learned about new uses for trash materials such as cardboard, plastic containers, and miscellaneous metal pieces. During a few sessions, kids would come to the ReDiscover center with their parents and were so excited to build artwork out of sustainable materials. This community service has taught...
Meet the Facilitators: Isabella Granados
Isabella is one of our newest facilitators here at reDiscover! She helps teach camp, after school and homeschool classes. Isabella was born and raised in East LA and has been a part of community art spaces from the young age of 12. She studied Fine Arts & Arts Education as an undergrad at UCLA...
Meet the Facilitators – Orr Herz
Orr Herz is an exhibiting artist who works in a variety of media, from acrylics to ceramics to welding. He's also one of reDiscover's Lead Facilitators, leading camps and classes at reDiscover Center and throughout Los Angeles. Orr is reDiscover's Coordinator for Pasadena-area programming, including our partnership with Los Feliz Charter School for the...
Tinkering is for Middle Schoolers, too
15 years ago, reDiscover was founded to serve preschool and early elementary classrooms with creative reuse materials. 10 years ago, we added Tinkering programs to engage upper elementary kids using those same materials, plus power tools. 4 years ago, we started prototyping programs for middle schoolers, starting with camps for advanced tinkerers. Tinkering is...
Meet the Facilitators: Emma Ramey
Emma Ramey teaches in reDiscover's after school, camp, and festival programs. Great at organizing activities for a room full of kids at a birthday party or patiently working one-on-one with a tinkerer, Emma loves working with kids. A graduate of Cal State LA with a major in Art Education, Emma first got into art...