Beau Trifiro of Open Source Skateboards tells us all about how he builds his own custom boards, teaches classes, and designs custom software that anyone can use to design their own custom skateboards and molds.

Crawl out of that box and give them real world skills to be proud of and carry on to adulthood!
Home-school mom Debbie Gillespie encourages other educators to get creative!

Andy Hahn at KIPPLA in east Los Angeles, makes good grades a prerequisite for building their own skateboard before the end of the school year.

If you have a Tool Library in your area, you know that these are wonderful places to learn to make things, use tools and hang out with energetic, cool people! This Tool Library is hosting skateboard building sessions a couple of times a month.