There is a delightfully relentless quality to the way that Tinkering School gets going every year. Sometime in January, we start interviewing parents and kids, paperwork goes out, confirmations come in, and then… suddenly it’s late June and we’re in a frenzy of physical preparations. Supplies are being ordered, broken or lost tools from last year are being fixed or replaced, and the curriculum gets polished. Somehow (thanks largely to the magic of Robyn, and Julie) it all comes together.

This is the last week before full-on frenzy begins. I’ll take a deep breath (in the form of a paragliding adventure in Southern Oregon) and then it’s non-stop through four weeks of July: prep-week, session 1, session 2, cleanup-week. When I describe how this works to people they either say “Wow! That sounds exhausting!” or “Wow! That sounds like *so* much fun, can I sign up?”

We’re working with some exciting materials and going to try and solve some tough problems this year, which should at least give us some spectacular failures (always instructional) and the possibility of wild successes. We’re also going to do the nightly diary entries a little differently so that it’s more compatible with RSS readers (finally!).

Stay tuned, the real fun starts July 13th!