Summer is cooking along already, but here is a good article with some questions and ideas for how schools can incorporate creativity and inventing in their curriculums. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/07/21/486046973/three-challenges-as-more-makers-move-into-schools   Advertisements

This spring, abcdexperiments/studio+lab ran a Naturalist Club at Ed Smith Elementary for kids k-3 for four weeks.  We had a great time exploring the forest behind the school, the water tower, and the Water Detention Pond at Barry Park. We poked, we ambled, we just enjoyed ourselves outside!  We encourage everyone to do the same… Continue reading Naturalist Club at Ed Smith Elementary

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Here is another article supporting that “play” is critical in a child’s development, and how it needs to re-instituted into our education system. http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/15/children-learn-play-age-eight-lego

I’m making a gamble that if I like to play with Legos, then other “adults” might also like it.  Anyone 21+ is welcome to come make some crazy @^%$#  on Friday.

Last night at the Academy Awards, Pete Docter won for his film Inside Out.   I have long been a Pete Docter fan.  When I was a kid (15), I used to go to the Spike & Mike Animation Festivals held annually in Minneapolis/St. Paul.  Pete Docter was a student then at Cal Arts, but… Continue reading To Make…