Inside the Org: SKATEtotheMAX
Learn more about SKATEtotheMAX, a community interest company focused on highlighting skateboard safety awareness through social engagement!
Making Matching Fingerboards with Nanodek
See how I used Nanodek to create a fingerboard that matches my handmade Roarockit skateboard!
Builder Profile: Open Source Skateboards
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.
OSF Student Brand Showcase 2020
Roarockit celebrates Oasis Skateboard Factory students and graduates. See the 2020 Board Builder of the Year reveal!
Oasis Skateboard Factory: Arctery'x Problem Solvers
Huge congratulations to Oasis Skateboard Factory for winning the first place award at the Arctery’x Toronto Problem Solvers Queen St. event in December 2019!
Teacher Profile: Bonnie Thoe-Austin in Minnesota
Bonnie Thoe-Austin is a high school shop teacher that uses skateboard building as a way to engage struggling students by applying math to “real life” using the Roarockit method.
Teacher Profile: Marcus McKinnon in Australia
My goal for this unit was to show students how timbers could be manipulated into curved shapes and how that might be used in everyday society.
Teacher Profile: Dominic Yarbrough and Costanoa Continuation High School
"I have never, in my entire career, had 100% engagement 100% of the time until now. Simply doing something that the students are truly interested in and is real/relevant to them shows them that they are valued in the classroom. I want them to be active participants in their learning rather than merely recipients of facts. "