THE STEAM HARDWARE STORE
Hardware store = a cabinet of curiosity = a treasure box of learning opportunities
Did you ever hang out at the hardware store just for fun? The STEAM Hardware Store is a new type of community learning center that combines a retail store with an arts-integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning center. This will be a place where youth build a lifelong connection to the sciences, technology, engineering, and math utilizing arts & creativity to engage (making the acronym into “STEAM”) with guidance from professionals, educators and role models of their own communities.
The neighborhood hardware store has long served as a site to nurture creative and critical thinking and skills: envisioning, problem-solving, experimenting, measuring, calculating, drafting, etc. Our hope is to recognize and re-invest in this local asset to make foundational skills acquisition for STEAM learning accessible, tangible, and fun for the 21st century workforce.
If you like to hear the update on this project progress, please feel free to contact us about it.
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2012 concept drawing in progress