Beam Center Inc
Beam Center is a Brooklyn-based community where artists guide young creators aged 6 to 18. Our hands-on programs in technology, imagination and craft help young people build their character, courage to think for themselves, and capacity for collaboration and creation. Beam Center is a place where artists, thinkers and makers learn to share their process and work; and where teachers explore new ways to integrate hands-on making and design-thinking into their own educational practice.
We believe the most lasting way to help young people form deep interests and connections to learning is through relationships with adult creators who share their passions and practices. We leverage pre-teen kids' imagination and openness to expose them to many ways of making things and telling stories that can guide them to identify as creators rather than consumers, to think for themselves and to find intrinsic motivation from a job well done, a thing made more beautiful or useful. For teenagers it means preparing them for what lies beyond high school by connecting real work with meaning and continual learning through collaborations on large-scale projects with designers, builders, engineers and artists.
