Tinkerfest Returns To Tulsa's Discovery Lab, Offering Lessons For Kids & Adults

Discovery Lab is calling makers, artists, and tinkers of all ages for the museum's upcoming Tinkerfest that embraces the five branches of STEAM.

Thursday, August 1st 2024, 4:17 pm

By: News On 6, Alyssa Miller


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Tinkerfest at Discovery Lab is back for a second year.

The event is Saturday, September 7th and is included with general admission.

Tinkering is when a person works with their hands to create or repair something. Director of Education Chip Lindsey said some of the world's most famous inventions started with tinkering, dating as far back as the Bronze Age.

He gave the example of casting metal.

"Before long they were building axes and spearpoints and all sorts of things that were very useful that you could not find in nature naturally," Lindsey said.

Using a hot plate, pewter, and a clay-like material, he taught us to pewter, cast a finger, hand, key, and pin. Lindsey said activities like this allow kids to explore and build.

"When we have a chance to get hands-on with real phenomena like molten metal or gases or fibers or tools, you begin to go, I can do that," he added.

That unlocks innovation.

"Just getting exposure to a real material in a real way makes you think about the world differently and more creatively sometimes," Lindsey said.

Inspiring the next generation of world changers.

For more information about Tinkerfest, click here.

Alyssa Miller

Alyssa joined the News On 6 team as a multimedia journalist in January 2023. Before that, Alyssa anchored 13 NEWS This Morning and told Northeast Kansans stories as a reporter for WIBW-TV. In her four years there, she won several Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards for her anchor and reporter work.

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