The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas presents the “Tinkering Studio,” where you become the inventor, artist or scientist. In the “Tinkering Studio” you allow your hands to do the thinking, while observing the expected and astonishingly unexpected.
“Tinkering” camps will take place in the afternoons after Art Shops. Marchello Eans and Markeith Woods will be the instructors for both camps. Tinkering I, for ages 6-10, will be June 25-29 from 1-4 p.m. Tinkering II, for ages 11-16, will be June 18-22 from 1-4 p.m. The programming has been scheduled so that age groups can have a full day of camps between Tinkering and Art Shop. However, the center will not provide lunch to the students that stay for both classes.
The best way the center has found to describe tinkering is — think of it as your grandfather’s workshop meets Engineering 101. It is a theme brought to ASC through its partnership with San Francisco-based museum The Exploratorium, through ASC’s partnership in the Arkansas Discovery Network, which is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. In tinkering, students are asked to think about circuits, motors, contraptions – simple technology – and then use their own creativity to determine the final product. These creative opportunities are the catalysts to launch young, brilliant minds into the world’s future engineers and technicians.
For prices and registration information, visit the website at www.ArtsScienceCenter.org or call 870-536-3375. Scholarships are available.
The center, located at 701 Main St., is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, and is closed on Sunday. Support for ASC is provided in part by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hands-on science exhibits are offered through the center’s partnership with Arkansas Discovery Network, a consortium of seven museums in Arkansas funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.