fall workshops at Parts and Crafts!
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davis_squareSummer's over, and we're starting up our fall roster of classes, workshops, and afterschool programs. Here's a quick overview of what we've got lined up over the next few weeks:
Inventioneering: from imagination to prototype
Fridays 6-8 p.m. (8 sessions)
Kids ages 7-13
Lights, Sounds, Motors! Intro to electronics
Thursdays 4-6 p.m. (8 sessions)
Kids ages 7-13
Girls Invention Workshop
Second Saturday of every month, 12-2 p.m. (starts 9/17)
Girls ages 7-13
Arduino 101: Intro to digital electronics
Saturdays 10:30-12 p.m. (5 sessions)
Kids ages 10 and up
We're also running our first-ever afterschool program in our space, as well as a free open shop day every Saturday from 12-3. Details after the jump!
CLASSES
Inventioneering! (from imagination to prototype)
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
In this workshop, Terry Murray the Inventor Mentor takes kids through
the research, design and engineering process that all inventors go
through, and demonstrates the amazing power that comes from combining
knowledge and imagination.A hands-on series where kids imagine,
design, and build their own projects, putting scientific understanding
to work in the service of wacky inventions.
Date: September 16 – November 4 (8 sessions)
Time: Fridays 6-8 p.m.
Cost: $200, sliding scale
Age range: Kids ages 8-13
Lights! Sounds! Motors! Introduction to electronics
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
In this workshop, we’ll go through eight beginner electronics
projects, introducing kids to basic components (resistors, switches,
capacitors, diodes) and concepts (the relationship between electricity
and magnetism, voltage, current, and capacitance). We’ll take apart
and examine scrap electronics, learn how to solder, build motors, play
sounds, make things blink and spin, and build connections.
Date: September 15-November 3 (8 sessions)
Time: Thursdays, 4 – 6 p.m.
Cost: $200, sliding scale
Age range: Kids ages 8-13
Arduino 101: Introduction to Digital Electronics
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Want to learn how to build things with electronics, computers, and
microcontrollers but need a little help? This workshop will explore
the basics of electronics and microcontrollers — LEDs, transistors,
resistors, motors, integrated circuits, and sensors using solderless
breadboards, one of the more commonly used electrical engineering
prototyping tools. We will work together on a series of interesting
circuits and programs using the Arduino, an easy to use open hardware platform. Taught by Will Macfarlane.
Dates: September 17-October 15 (5 sessions)
Time: Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m.
Cost: $125, sliding scale (+ $30 materials cost for those who want to
take their projects home)
Age: 10 and up
EVENTS
Second Saturdays: Girls Invention Workshop!
The second Saturday of every month, a girls-only workshop for making
things and making things happen! We’ll work with simple circuits —
blinking LEDS, drawdios, lightsabers and drawbots, light sensors and
motion detectors, to name a few — and then experiment with making our
own! Taught by Katie Gradowski
Date: Second Saturday of every month (September's workshop will be on the third Saturday, 9/17)
Time: 12-2 p.m. (followed by an hour of optional open shop time)
Who: Girls ages 7-13
Cost: $10-25 suggested donation
Saturday Open Shop
Every Saturday we open up our shop, from 12:00 p.m. to 3 p.m. to
families and other curious folks who want to come in, look around, and
make something (or make something happen!) We’ll have a few projects
around, and spend the afternoon building and hanging out together.
People are encouraged to come to open shop with projects and ideas of
their own that they’d like to work on and explore, but we’ll always
have something in mind to get you started if you’re suffering from
maker’s block.
Date: Every Saturday from 12-2 p.m. (starting 9/17)
Who: You!
Cost: Free
Afterschool @ Parts and Crafts
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Get a jumpstart on the weekend! Every Friday from 3-5:30, we’ll run
workshops + open build time at Parts and Crafts. We’ll have our
soldering station, glue guns, materials, scrap wood, LEDs, motors, and
batteries, and a different project every week to get kids started.
Come by and make something cool!
Dates: 12 weeks, September 16-December 16, with a break around Thanksgiving
Times: Friday afternoons, 3-5:30 p.m.
Cost: $25/week or $300 for the session, sliding scale (4 week minimum)
Age: Kids ages 7-13
who we are:
The Parts and Crafts Collective is a group of thinkers, teachers, and tinkerers in the Boston area who are interested in helping people build, think, create, succeed, fail, and learn. We run hands-on creative arts, science, and engineering programs for kids and adults to help people learn and do and make things. Our workshops run out of the basement of the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in West Somerville.
for more information or to register, email contact@partsandcrafts.org, or visit our website at www.partsandcrafts.org
Inventioneering: from imagination to prototype
Fridays 6-8 p.m. (8 sessions)
Kids ages 7-13
Lights, Sounds, Motors! Intro to electronics
Thursdays 4-6 p.m. (8 sessions)
Kids ages 7-13
Girls Invention Workshop
Second Saturday of every month, 12-2 p.m. (starts 9/17)
Girls ages 7-13
Arduino 101: Intro to digital electronics
Saturdays 10:30-12 p.m. (5 sessions)
Kids ages 10 and up
We're also running our first-ever afterschool program in our space, as well as a free open shop day every Saturday from 12-3. Details after the jump!
CLASSES
Inventioneering! (from imagination to prototype)
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
In this workshop, Terry Murray the Inventor Mentor takes kids through
the research, design and engineering process that all inventors go
through, and demonstrates the amazing power that comes from combining
knowledge and imagination.A hands-on series where kids imagine,
design, and build their own projects, putting scientific understanding
to work in the service of wacky inventions.
Date: September 16 – November 4 (8 sessions)
Time: Fridays 6-8 p.m.
Cost: $200, sliding scale
Age range: Kids ages 8-13
Lights! Sounds! Motors! Introduction to electronics
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
In this workshop, we’ll go through eight beginner electronics
projects, introducing kids to basic components (resistors, switches,
capacitors, diodes) and concepts (the relationship between electricity
and magnetism, voltage, current, and capacitance). We’ll take apart
and examine scrap electronics, learn how to solder, build motors, play
sounds, make things blink and spin, and build connections.
Date: September 15-November 3 (8 sessions)
Time: Thursdays, 4 – 6 p.m.
Cost: $200, sliding scale
Age range: Kids ages 8-13
Arduino 101: Introduction to Digital Electronics
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Want to learn how to build things with electronics, computers, and
microcontrollers but need a little help? This workshop will explore
the basics of electronics and microcontrollers — LEDs, transistors,
resistors, motors, integrated circuits, and sensors using solderless
breadboards, one of the more commonly used electrical engineering
prototyping tools. We will work together on a series of interesting
circuits and programs using the Arduino, an easy to use open hardware platform. Taught by Will Macfarlane.
Dates: September 17-October 15 (5 sessions)
Time: Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m.
Cost: $125, sliding scale (+ $30 materials cost for those who want to
take their projects home)
Age: 10 and up
EVENTS
Second Saturdays: Girls Invention Workshop!
The second Saturday of every month, a girls-only workshop for making
things and making things happen! We’ll work with simple circuits —
blinking LEDS, drawdios, lightsabers and drawbots, light sensors and
motion detectors, to name a few — and then experiment with making our
own! Taught by Katie Gradowski
Date: Second Saturday of every month (September's workshop will be on the third Saturday, 9/17)
Time: 12-2 p.m. (followed by an hour of optional open shop time)
Who: Girls ages 7-13
Cost: $10-25 suggested donation
Saturday Open Shop
Every Saturday we open up our shop, from 12:00 p.m. to 3 p.m. to
families and other curious folks who want to come in, look around, and
make something (or make something happen!) We’ll have a few projects
around, and spend the afternoon building and hanging out together.
People are encouraged to come to open shop with projects and ideas of
their own that they’d like to work on and explore, but we’ll always
have something in mind to get you started if you’re suffering from
maker’s block.
Date: Every Saturday from 12-2 p.m. (starting 9/17)
Who: You!
Cost: Free
Afterschool @ Parts and Crafts
register: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Get a jumpstart on the weekend! Every Friday from 3-5:30, we’ll run
workshops + open build time at Parts and Crafts. We’ll have our
soldering station, glue guns, materials, scrap wood, LEDs, motors, and
batteries, and a different project every week to get kids started.
Come by and make something cool!
Dates: 12 weeks, September 16-December 16, with a break around Thanksgiving
Times: Friday afternoons, 3-5:30 p.m.
Cost: $25/week or $300 for the session, sliding scale (4 week minimum)
Age: Kids ages 7-13
who we are:
The Parts and Crafts Collective is a group of thinkers, teachers, and tinkerers in the Boston area who are interested in helping people build, think, create, succeed, fail, and learn. We run hands-on creative arts, science, and engineering programs for kids and adults to help people learn and do and make things. Our workshops run out of the basement of the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in West Somerville.
for more information or to register, email contact@partsandcrafts.org, or visit our website at www.partsandcrafts.org
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