Making Makers: The Maker Scouts
The Exploratory has been providing making opportunities for young children in Los Angeles for two years through makeshops, public events, in class programs, camps, birthday parties, and educator makeshops. Our mission is to provide tinkering and making learning opportunities for children to practice the mindset skills that they will need to be successful in a future full of unknowns – grit, flexible thinking, creative thinking, frustration tolerance, failing forward, and communication. In making with hundreds of young children, among all the things that we have learned, the biggest lesson for us has been that there is so much we still have to learn! So, Maker Scouts was born as a national program of modern, local communities working together to raise innovation capable young people.
