LaunchSpace Playful Engineers For Adults

Free Event!

Join us at LaunchSpace and bring out your inner child for a hands-on play-based building workshop with teaching artist Jay Mankita. Previously aimed toward kids, this time Playful Engineers is letting adults in on the fun!

Jay will lead us through playful hands-on STEAM projects to explore engineering principles. Using common materials, participants will build unique artful mechanisms that send messages, tell stories, or accomplish tasks.

In this workshop, participants make scissor, reverse motion, and parallel linkages from pre-drilled craft sticks and brads which we provide, building backbones for their own artful mechanisms that send messages, tell stories, or accomplish tasks. As they build their mechanisms, they create their own designs as overlays, which in turn, modify the mechanisms. Engineering informs design, and vice versa.

Check out more about Jay and Playful Engineers at https://www.playfulengineers.com.

Ages: 16+

Instructor: Jay Mankita

Prerequisite: None!