152: Gever Tulley

Cool Tools

• Episode: 152: Gever Tulley
• Website: Cool Tools
• Feed URL: http://feedpress.me/cooltoolsshow
• Duration: 00:37:58
• Published: 2018-12-07 22:02

Our guest this week is Gever Tulley. Gever is founder of Tinkering School, an internationally famous summer camp where kids build amazing things from rollercoasters to wind-powered trains. He is also the founder of SF Brightworks, a K-12 school where the student is the co-author of their education, with an emphasis on learning by doing. He also co-author of 50 Dangerous Things (you should let your children do), a book to help children and families learn to assess and mitigate risk by doing dangerous things together (and is now available in seven languages). He speaks and hosts workshops internationally on education and the empowerment of children, and he is constantly fooling around in the shop, building things with kids For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/gever-tulley-founder-of-tinkering-school