WOOD you like to make a chair w/ Amanda? Fall 2025 (8 weeks, ages 12 - 15)

Schedule

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

UNC Asheville STEAM Studio | Asheville, NC

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SkillSet @ the UNCA STEAM Studio offers after-school sessions for girls and gender expansive kids* age 8 and up!
About this Event

Each after-school session focuses on hands-on projects meant to engage busy hands and expand curious minds. Programming spans from woodshop to welding to computer aided art and design to videography and animation.


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Join us for Woodworking After School
For girls and gender expansive kids* ages 12 - 15
FRIDAYS, 4pm - 6:30pm
September 26 - November 14
@ UNCA STEAM Studio

Join us for an exploration of woodworking tools, their safe use, and their creative potential! We will be using a variety of freestanding and hand-held tools to better understand how to design useful objects using wood and fasteners (screws! nails!).

The curriculum of this program is aimed at folks who have already taken Junior Woodworking, and we will focus on tool use safety, practice through doing, and bravely making cool stuff with powerful and sometimes scary tools.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Physics of power tools
  • Physics of body leverage
  • 3D design using wood and fasteners
  • Safe use of drills, saws, measuring tools
  • Basic geometry and algebra in construction and design
  • Jobsite teamwork

$300 - snacks, tools, and materials included!

Financial Aid is Available! Apply Here Prior to Registration


Accessibility notes

  • Students will be exposed to a dusty space with loud machinery.

*SkillSet is open to students of all genders


SkillSet offers , , , and programming.

By teaching participants the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math embedded in the objects they create, SkillSet equips the next generation of leaders and problem solvers with the tools to make change and build the future.

Learn more at www.skillset.tools

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Where is it happening?

UNC Asheville STEAM Studio, 821 Riverside Drive, Asheville, United States

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USD 300.00

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