Friday was HOT. Ninety nine degrees of HOT!
Here's the bottomline: Despite the heat, we tried really, really hard. We made a lot of mistakes and also learned from them. We collaborated and make some awesome friends, and we build something way, way bigger than ourselves!
Read MoreTeamwork is hard. It's hard because we are training tools and skills that are largely individual. One person at a time on the chopsaw. A drill is a two handed tool (usually the two hands belong to one person.) Clamps are pretty much designed to be used by one person and not a team.
So, while we're teaching these tools that are designed for use by one person, in just one week, we are also unteaching that.
How many people can it actually take to put one screw into two pieces of wood? No, this isn't the set up for a bad joke. I'm being serious. How many?
Read MoreWe're halfway done!
The highlights from today were:
Today, I mostly hung out with the octopus team, and helped them be silly and tinkery as they made huge progress on their project!
Read MoreToday was the launch of Tinkering School's first week at Mark Day School in San Rafael! For both students and staff, it was quite the experience. This is our first time launching a summer day camp that's primarily outdoors, with a mobile shop that can be tucked and untucked at the close and start of each day, and in a space where we aren't reliant on many of the things we come to depend on at our main day camp location in San Francisco -- there are no rafters from which to suspend projects, no endless supply chain of weird and unusual materials, and no walls.
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