MakerSpace: Tech Take Apart

If you’re library is like mine, you probably have a lot of old, nonfunctional tech laying around that you are waiting to discard. Don’t discard it – use it! One of my favorite activities to do with teens is Tech Take Apart.

It’s really as simple as it seems, you give the teens some tools (and protective eye wear!) and let them take the tech apart to see what the inside looks like.

And if you want to be really creative, you can give them a hot glue gun and let them make “robots” out of the tech pieces. Granted, these are not functional robots – though there is not reason that the teens couldn’t try to make functional robots. For example, they could…