Covid-19 & Early Learning

The original intent of the Tinkering Together conference was to offer seventy-five stakeholders (speakers, advisors, participants), an opportunity to meet in person at the Exploratorium in San Francisco to share knowledge and open communication channels regarding potential future work at the intersection of tinkering, making, STEAM, and early learning. The COVID-19 pandemic precluded this type of in-person engagement, but it offered instead an important opportunity to evaluate our thinking against the critical real-world challenge of broadening participation to include diverse early learning providers in a meaningful yet accessible way.