Is this a thing? Does anyone offer one?
My daughter is 11, loves tech, and is homeschooled.
My Glowforge is a year and a half old and barely used.
What I would love is for someone to walk her through the basics of using it as well as how to make simple items. I have learned, not used, and forgotten so many times I’d also love if notes came with it.
I bought the Glowforge with the idea that I would make little personalized items as promo for my business. We made a few items for that (loved them) then made a few items for my oldest child’s wedding. . .then the Glowforge went back to doing nothing.
Do you know of a course or know someone who would like to do a little Glowforge tutoring?
you can contact me at ruthcardello@gmail.com
@ruthcardello I don’t know of a course, but last year Glowforge was nice enough to create projects for kids and send them out.
My kids are homeschooled and I’ll walk them through basics, but they learned a lot taking youth classes at our local makerspace. If you ever want to collaborate on a basic kids class, I’d be willing to help. I can put something together project-based.
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If you have her go through the “Your First Prints,” in the Glowforge app, it will definitely give her a lot of the basics. I had used my Glowforge for over a month before I finally decided to actually go through all the steps. She may need a little help, but it’s worth it to see how much she can understand herself, especially if she’s as good with computers as most kids are nowadays. Just my thoughts.
Focused on letterpress, but I think there is a great market opening for remote laser-cutting classes for kids with supervision! My now 14 y.o. and I have worked together on some things over the years (and then we co-purchased a 3D printer earlier this year to add to the variety). We even went to a kids-oriented makerspace course when they were single digits! (They got to assemble a dinosaur.)