Help ReDiscover Center establish one of the largest Youth Makerspace Facilities in the entire country!

Expand existing program

In too many schools, particularly in LAUSD, arts education has become a sad afterthought, and students are not gaining the STEAM skills necessary for full engagement with our increasingly knowledge-intensive, globally integrated and innovation-based economy. The vast majority of students go through their entire education without exposure to the shop classes utilized by previous generations to gain manual skills, resilience, and 3D reasoning. Most students graduate unable to safely use tools for even basic construction and repairs. Our unique ethos and methods have been incredibly effective at imparting STEM and STEAM lessons in an organic, intuitive way. We are responding to children's needs to learn both how to DO and how to CREATE: How to learn the practical, the mathematical, and the common sense skills that come from, say, constructing a nightstand from scratch- to the sheer exhilaration that comes from creating something huge and fantastical.

Since 2003, reDiscover Center has been providing hands-on creativity education programs to over 10,000 children per year in Los Angeles County. Based out of our current 2,000 sf kids makerspace in Venice, we engage children through camps, workshops, in-school programs, and community events throughout the Westside and beyond. Our programs combine large quantities of sustainable and reclaimed materials, like industrial offcuts, commercial discards, and recyclables, with real power tools like drills and saws, to create a tinkering environment where children can create projects as wild and vivid as their imaginations! With this expansion, we will reach and impact more youth, and become a regional anchor for parents and their children to learn to make and tinker. Our work will soar exponentially-and allow us to impact and change the lives of so many more deserving youth. We were one of the first independent kids' makerspaces, and have been pioneers ever since!

reDiscover Center's programs have always followed our mission to instill resiliency, creativity, and efficiency in our youth. We are not only developing skilled makers, we are preparing future leaders and thinkers- runners of thriving households, starters of essential companies, and beacons of light and environmental innovation in community volunteer groups and neighborhood and city councils alike. Our youth experience greater confidence, utilize practical skill sets, gain an increased interest in careers in STEM, develop a great sense of responsibility and awareness for the environment, change consumption habits, and increase their abilities to collaborate and problem solve-across differences. We're creating the future citizens L.A. needs.