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Make It Move: Levers

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DESCRIPTION: Let's use levers to make something! Will it be a surpise that hides and apprears? or something that breaks apart, or opens it's mouth. Let's use our imagination and tell stories with simple mechanics. Join this workshop for some creative, building and storytelling fun!

Recommended for ages 6 to 10

LEARN ABOUT

  • How to make a lever (simple machine)

  • Craft

  • Social skills

WORKSHOP FORMAT: 1 hour live online via zoom

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Jamie Solis is an educator who specializes in childhood development and digital technologies. She first earned a BS in Childhood & Special Education from NYU, where she discovered her passion for learning experience design. Jamie furthered her studies with an MA in Design and Development of Digital Games from the Teachers College at Columbia University, focusing on digital music learning for young children. Her firm belief in music as a conduit to the creative process led her to found NOISE212 Labs, a music enrichment program that introduces young children to DJing and digital music production.

MATERIAL NEEDED: Paper fasenor or pipecleaners, scissors, cardboard (you can cut), ruler, colored papers, markers

PRICE: $20/session OR $75 for 5 sessions (you’ll save $5/session with purchase of a package)

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