Creating a Cute Lil Library w/ Amber Spring 2026 (8 weeks, ages 12 - 15)

Each after-school session focuses on hands-on projects meant to engage busy hands and expand curious minds. Programming spans from woodshop to welding to computer aided art and design to videography and animation.

Join us for an exploration of woodworking tools, their safe use, and their creative potential! We will be using a variety of freestanding and hand-held tools to better understand how to design useful objects using wood and fasteners (screws! nails!).

The curriculum of this program is aimed at folks who have already completed another woodworking experience at SkillSet, and we will focus on tool use safety, practice through doing, and bravely making cool stuff with powerful and sometimes scary tools.

In this class, students will each design and make their own free little library -- and the curriculum allows for customization if they want to use their design for another purpose such as indoor display or storage.

Learning Outcomes:

• Physics of power tools
• Physics of body leverage
• 3D design using wood and fasteners
• Safe use of drills, saws, measuring tools
• Basic geometry and algebra in construction and design
• Jobsite teamwork

$300 - snacks, tools, and materials included!

Financial Aid is Available! Apply Here Prior to Registration

Accessibility notes

• Students will be exposed to a dusty space with loud machinery.

*SkillSet is open to students of all genders

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By teaching participants the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math embedded in the objects they create, SkillSet equips the next generation of leaders and problem solvers with the tools to make change and build the future.

Learn more at www.skillset.tools

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