The Big-Brained Superheroes Club
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Send Big-Brained Superheroes to Seattle's Mini Maker Faire!
The Big Brains of Yesler Terrace in Seattle, WA, have been selected to participate in this year's Seattle Mini Maker Faire, and we need your help to get there! For transportation, food, and support staff, we are hoping to raise $100 per Big Brained Superhero with a goal of getting at least 10 Big Brains to the event. The more we raise, the more Brains get to go!
Help Big Brains make the world they want to live in!
About The Big-Brained Superheroes Club
The Big-Brained Superheroes Club (The BBSC) was founded in 2012 on the idea that the disengaged kids hanging out in the halls of Seattle's Yesler Community Center would not only regularly show up for a program centered on hands-on recreational nerdiness (aka STE*A*M) but that the creativity, sense of adventure, and critical thinking they had been deploying in other, less socially beneficial, contexts would be foundational to their development as hackers and creators. To help Big Brains ease into their creator identities, The BBSC has invested in a variety of helpful tactics, one of which is putting the young people in charge as much as possible. As 11 year-old Big Brain Muz explains, "this isn’t any standard program. This program it is not run by adults. The kids run the program, and this is good because this shows the kids how it is in the real world." Consequently, over time, The BBSC has developed a culture of continual personal growth and community responsibility, which are increasingly essential to developing a just society.
Annually, The Big-Brained Superheroes Club engages over 120 East African/Latino/Asian immigrant and refugee youth (ages two and up) living in the extremely low-income Seattle neighborhood of Yesler Terrace in drop-in afterschool creative discovery and technical skill-building. Meeting 200 times a year, The BBSC offers Big Brains over 500 STE*A*M project hours, plus adventurous learning field trips. With the skills they gain through the club, Big Brains traveled to events around Seattle teaching fundamental STE*A*M concepts, such as electric circuits and binary math to over 700 people in 2017. On a mission to tap into the hidden strengths that all young people have through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics, The Big-Brained Superheroes Club is, at its core, about community coming together to create. We’re exercising our real-life superpowers, such as leadership, teamwork, and persistence, to build a kinder, nerdier, more imaginative world.
The Big Brains of Yesler Terrace in Seattle, WA, have been selected to participate in this year's Seattle Mini Maker Faire, and we need your help to get there! For transportation, food, and support staff, we are hoping to raise $100 per Big Brained Superhero with a goal of getting at least 10 Big Brains to the event. The more we raise, the more Brains get to go!
Help Big Brains make the world they want to live in!
About The Big-Brained Superheroes Club
The Big-Brained Superheroes Club (The BBSC) was founded in 2012 on the idea that the disengaged kids hanging out in the halls of Seattle's Yesler Community Center would not only regularly show up for a program centered on hands-on recreational nerdiness (aka STE*A*M) but that the creativity, sense of adventure, and critical thinking they had been deploying in other, less socially beneficial, contexts would be foundational to their development as hackers and creators. To help Big Brains ease into their creator identities, The BBSC has invested in a variety of helpful tactics, one of which is putting the young people in charge as much as possible. As 11 year-old Big Brain Muz explains, "this isn’t any standard program. This program it is not run by adults. The kids run the program, and this is good because this shows the kids how it is in the real world." Consequently, over time, The BBSC has developed a culture of continual personal growth and community responsibility, which are increasingly essential to developing a just society.
Annually, The Big-Brained Superheroes Club engages over 120 East African/Latino/Asian immigrant and refugee youth (ages two and up) living in the extremely low-income Seattle neighborhood of Yesler Terrace in drop-in afterschool creative discovery and technical skill-building. Meeting 200 times a year, The BBSC offers Big Brains over 500 STE*A*M project hours, plus adventurous learning field trips. With the skills they gain through the club, Big Brains traveled to events around Seattle teaching fundamental STE*A*M concepts, such as electric circuits and binary math to over 700 people in 2017. On a mission to tap into the hidden strengths that all young people have through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics, The Big-Brained Superheroes Club is, at its core, about community coming together to create. We’re exercising our real-life superpowers, such as leadership, teamwork, and persistence, to build a kinder, nerdier, more imaginative world.
Organizer
Meredith Wenger
Organizer
Seattle, WA