Teen Innovator Program @ KID

Learning skills | Making things | Building relationships

     Skill Building Projects

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
-Benjamin Franklin

As part of the program, young people come to KID Museum once a week after school to make projects that teach them hands-on skills, including woodworking, textile arts, electronics, coding, and digital fabrication.


Whether building and soldering their own boomboxes, machine sewing drawstring bags, or coding interactive sculptures with Arduino, teens learn foundationa fabrication skills that they can then use to build projects of their own.

     Intensive Build Projects


Each cohort participates in either an Intensive Project in which they apply the skills they've developed over the course of the semester to a large scale project. They are given an open-ended prompt and go through the entire design process -- from brainstorming concepts to prototyping and fabrication.


Past project prompts have included:

  • Design interactive ways to collect and display data about the visitor experience at KID Museum
  • Design a way to bring people together; and
  • Design an interactive exhibit or teaching tool for visitors of KID Museum


    • The Intensive Project process not only allows teens to employ the technical skills they've developed, but also apply softer skills like collaboration, project management, and leadership.