Update: Tinker Camp is fully booked. We’ll have plans to do one more in June 2017.

For the first time ever, Science Centre Singapore’s The Tinkering Studio is organising a 2D1N TINKER CAMP.

Set -up in collaboration with San Francisco’s science centre, The Exploratorium, The Tinkering Studio encourages creative learning and exploration.

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Things to bring: Sleeping bag, change of clothes (recommended track pants & long sleeves for the night), toiletries & your creative juices!

ITINERARY

Day 1

TIME	DESCRIPTION
9.00am	Welcome to Science Centre Singapore
9.30am	Electronics Fun-damentals Workshop Learn about the key electronic components and their functions in a circuit. Understand the essentials of electronics through creating your very own circuits on paper.
11.00am	Scribble bot A motor attached to a battery, base and marker; these are the fundamentals to create a scribbling machine that makes surprising patterns.
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Gallery Pathway: Eco-garden Tour Reconnect with nature and understand the importance of environment and sustainable living. Be inspired by the world around us that is filled with science, engineering and art.
1:30pm	Recycle, Reuse, Reimagine. Using tools to create a DIY indoor farming to grow herbs or freshen the room with succulents. Learn to be a sustainable human being in this competitive society, a superhero of our modern times.
3.30pm	DIY laser maze Team up to create a maze from yarn strings, bells and tape to challenge each other.
5.00pm	Dinner
5.45pm	Marble Machine Control the fate of the marbles using the provided materials like tracks, pegs, bells, etc. Explore the laws of physics like gravity and momentum by making the marbles travel the journey you have created.
7.30pm	Shower and Supper
8.00pm	Movie time Be inspired by a journey of friendship, creativity and overcoming challenges.
10.30pm	Catching Zzzzs

Day 2

TIME	DESCRIPTION
7.30am	Tinkering exercise: Paper Airplane Learn about the simple, yet important flight principles that can enhance the performance of your paper airplanes. A warm-up session for both the mind and body.
8.00am	Wash-up and Breakfast
9.00am	Chain Reaction (Part 1) Create a series of event, each caused by the previous one. Your ending is somebody’s start, and everyone is part of a bigger invention.
11.30am	Lunch
12.30pm	Chain Reaction (Part 2) Continue on making the chain reaction.	Parents Seminar Cultivate a culture of tinkering with your kids at home.
1.30pm	Set-off Chain Reaction
2.00pm	Goodbye Chef Tinkerers