During 2020, many of us attempted to learn a new skill or finally tackle that deep clean we’d been putting off. While some baked garden focaccia, organized their spice racks and alphabetized their record collections, Jill Katzenberger was busy looking over blueprints, sanding and drilling.
As executive director of Junkyard Social Club — an eclectic Boulder coffeehouse meets beer garden, meets adventure playground, meets rebel museum, set to hopefully open near the end of summer — much of her time has been occupied by bringing this creative vision, located at 2525 Frontier Ave., Unit A, to life.
Katzenberger has gotten folks of all ages excited about science and engineering by developing a series of engaging and hands-on STEAM programs throughout the…