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31 Jan 2021

I’m starting a newsletter!

Here’s the plan (which will undoubtedly change).

  1. Home science and tech activities are great fun but knowing where to start is hard.
  2. I’ll provide step-by-step guidance through a series of simple and fun weekly activities.
  3. The age range is very approximately 12-18. But see below…*
  4. We’ll be doing things like
    • making robots from really simple kit.
    • learning programming from absolute scratch. (pun almost intended)
    • home experiments (very similar to those on this site).
    • solving puzzles and breaking codes. Escape room stuff!
  5. I’ll assume everyone is an absolute beginner to start off.
  6. Parents! Subscribe and you can supervise the activities for younger kids as a great parent-child activity or let your kids work straight from the email.
  7. If you’re my client/student, or have been. You get a year’s free subscription. Email me: james at this site.

You’ll get:

  1. video walkthroughs,
  2. downloadable/printable guides and puzzles,
  3. tips on how to encourage creative thinking and the good work habits practical work develops.

There are tiers aaah! levels!

  1. Free: you get my public posts summarising the week’s activities, but no walkthrough videos or print-outs. You will get the occasional paid post too.
  2. Paid: you get everything and the full archive of my previous posts so you can go through them at your own pace.

I might put together a box of kit you can order so those who are super keen and possibly super lost can follow along without scouring eBay for obscure kit. There won’t be many so if you want to be kept in the loop… Subscribe!

The price:

The first post goes out today!

*age range

Motivation is a better filter than age. Imagine a scale with “Alice just dismantled the dishwasher because she likes motors” on one end and… well… I imagine most parents can fill in the lower end with their own example. This newsletter assume you’re towards the dishwasher end.