Tranform (Trash & Form) Academy

Shaking the science out of the box. How things work and why, is at the very heart of what drives us all to use the little grey cells and make sence of all we see and experience.

This program is about getting small interesting items and taking them apart. We then go on a journey of discovery to find out what the bits in the box do, why the box became redundant, would would be good to put in a new box (product), ho much stuff goes into the box, how hard it is to recycle.

That simple journey, has some big milestones:

1) The importance of science and engineering, appreciation of what goes into making a box. The value of careers in science and engineering.

2) Appreciation of the box, that it can be repaired or bits of it can be reused. That throwing it away when it works, is wasting what you can do. That if you keep using it, you can still do what you want and still have the cash to do other things.

3) If it has become un fashionable, steam punk it. There is no real intelligence in spending more money, you put no design input into designer cloths and product, why not put your own creativity in it and 'retro or steam punk it'. Or keep it still working, but design a cover that takes it into the year 3010, not 2010.

4) That a lot goes into a product and that to recyles it takes a lot of effort and it gets land filled instead. At the end of every transforming session, the bits we dont use get put in special bins for recycleing. Whole units (i.e. with mobile phones) or parts might be given to third world counctries, not fortunate enough to waste these items.