reDiscover Center

Envision a 4,000 sf makerspace designed just for kids, where youth can develop creativity and collaboration skills. A makerspace serving up to 100 youth at a time from across LA, staffed by educators, makers, and artists as diverse as the city itself. Where youth gain practical skills by building functional projects (Design a Bookshelf!), then use those skills to large-scale collaborative creations (6' Squirrel Robot! A Unicorn Cart!) as wild as their imaginations. All using sustainable materials sourced from recyclables and industrial offcuts.

Envision 4,000 sf of Kids Makerspace, specially designed to develop the creativity, collaboration skills, and ingenuity of LA County's youth - serving up to 75 “tinkerers” at once, establishing one of the largest facilities in the entire U.S. Our youth learn practical making (Building a Dog House! Design a Bookshelf!) to large-scale, highly imaginative creating (a 6' Squirrel Robot! A Unicorn Cart!) Your vote will put tools, confidence, and eco-awareness in our children's lives. Let's do this!

Ready to Innovate? Imagine an entire generation of young Angelenos who grow up molding, repurposing, and upcycling discarded material bound for the landfill? Thomas Edison said, “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” The Upcycle Innovation project will provide the “junk” and the tools needed for creative exploration and invention. Thomas Edison also said, “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” By procuring “junk” for reuse the Upcycle Innovation project makes it easy and affordable to experiment and fail…. and try again. An award of $100,000 will provide key seed funding for the development of an exciting full service facility, dedicated to providing year-round tinkering, hands-on, arts projects for children, families, teachers and artists. Our project increases the opportunity for cultural participation through engaging artistic activities and fosters support for increased cultural participation. By turning an abundant local resource – trash – in creative material we make it affordable.