Youth Maker Mondays: Welding with Bob (Ages 12-16)

Learn how to work with metal, or build on your metal-working skills! You'll use your imagination to combine scrap parts to make pieces of art to take home, like a steel minion, an animal, or whatever you dream up. 

In this three-week class, you'll begin with a safety briefing in our welding and sheet metal shop, then you will learn how to use all the tools you'll need to prepare and build your creations: cutters, grinders, vices, and spot welders.

Next, it's time for you to practice your skills and make your own unique creations with old silverware and other scrap metal parts that have been collected.

If you've taken welding classes at BARN in the past, this is a chance to get more hands-on time with the equipment and to refine your skills. 

Get ready to make some sparks fly!  

Details

• Maker Mondays are for students ages 12-16.
  
• When you register your youth, please enter their name in the Youth's Name field and enter the parent/guardian email address for "registrants email". All reminders and important information will go to the email address you register with.
• Please complete and return this minor permission form.
• Please click here for BARN's current COVID-19 health & safety protocols
  
• There is a materials fee of $5 included in the price of class. 
  
• Skill Level: Beginners.
• BARN is committed to accessibility. Tuition Assistance is available - click here to fill out the simple application before registering for a class. For those who might need physical assistance, please learn about BARN's Companion Program here.
• We are grateful to the City of Bainbridge Island for a cultural funding grant that enables us to reduce the costs of Maker Monday classes for families.
  

Participants must wear natural fiber clothing, long pants, closed-toe shoes (natural fiber or leather), no stretch fabrics, and long hair tied back. This is a strictly enforced safety policy. Thank you!

Instructor

Bob Mathisrud - Bob’s long work history of facilities operations has provided him a wide ranging experience in the skilled trades. He helps at BARN in many ways, including by volunteering as a safety monitor in several studios.