Tinkering School: An innovative summer camp known world-wide.

In 2005 Gever Tulley and I invited 8 kids to spend a week at our house: building things bigger than they were. This was the first session of the world-famous overnight summer camp, Tinkering School.

In 2009 we founded a non-profit, the Institute for Applied Tinkering (IAT), to manage Tinkering School and any other programs that fell under our mission: Explore, develop, and promote new methods for helping children learn using real tools to solve real problems in the real world. As Secretary of the IAT I was solely responsible for our 501(c)3 application and filings.

In 2011 Gever co-founded Brightworks, a K-12 alternative day school. As a member of the IAT board of directors I assisted with creation of the school, and also volunteered significant time the first year to help with preparing the building – including managing volunteer resources, accounting, and helping out wherever needed.

While I am no longer on the IAT board of directors, creation of Tinkering School, the IAT, and Brightworks are the projects I’ve been involved in that I believe will have the biggest impact on the future.

References:
Tinkering School
Institute for Applied Tinkering
Brightworks