Instructor: Jay Mankita
Tuesday, April 22
9am - 12pm
1 session

Jay Mankita is a maker/educator who facilitates mechanically-oriented maker space experiences for kids and adults. He leads workshops and events through his small arts-in-education maker space-themed company, Playful Engineers, which he founded in 2015. Through these, participants make their own chain reactions, mechanical linkages, crank-driven automata, pencil geometry, and other "artful mechanisms." Jay was recently a featured presenter at this years "Automatacon", and is currently writing a series of articles for Automata Magazine, on his approach to maker space education. He lives with his family in Amherst, MA, but travels the Northeast to teach and learn.

We supply materials, but if you have a small wooden or cardboard box you'd like to work with, or any small objects you might like to incorporate into your automaton, bring them along!