Toledo Tinkers: Through a Child's Eyes

September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023 | Public Programs

Imagination Station, Toledo’s Science Center, will implement Toledo Tinkers: Through a Child’s Eyes — a new initiative to address barriers to STEM education and promote a lifelong love of those subjects. An outreach curriculum and a mobile tinkering lab will help children ages 11–13 and their families establish personal connections with making and tinkering. Pilot programs will include the Maker Club — a 12-session out-of-school program for students from Boys and Girls Clubs of Toledo and other community-based organizations — as well as Tinkering Takeovers, which is a drop-in tinkering program for families at branch libraries. A community exhibition will showcase the diversity of the Toledo community and its rich history of making and tinkering, using the work of participating children.

Funders

IMLS

Funding Program: Museums for America

Award Number: MA-245768-OMS-20

Funding Amount: $250,000

TEAM MEMBERS

Sloan Eberly Mann

Principal Investigator

Imagination Station

Discipline: General STEM

Audience: Middle School Children (11-13) | Families | Museum/ISE Professionals

Environment Type: Public Programs | Afterschool Programs | Making and Tinkering Programs | Library Programs

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