WELCOME TO THE BUILD-IT BUS
Traveling Workshop

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Blue Bus Bus tool wall Work benches Working on the lathe Working at the lathe Electric Guitar Hand-made, hand-cranked lathe

•The Build-it Bus is a traveling creative workshop that can partner with existing urban after-school programs, day care centers, summer camps, senior centers to offer meaningful, skilled craft programs. The bus operates in the Philadelphia urban area.

For students coming aboard, The Build-it Bus is a novel and welcoming space. The interior space of the bus is equipped as flexible work-shop space for a variety of hand skills - from woodworking to sewing craft to cooking. (See the navigation bar to browse for list of classes for different age groups).

The Build-it Bus seeks to offer students the opportunity to make meaningful projects for themselves and for their families that teach life skills, enhance the family, teach self-sufficiency.

•We travel to location tailoring anything from single one hour classes to full 5 to 12 week courses for:

•The Build-it Bus is an urban/suburban partnership generously supported since its beginnings by the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (WePAC), Ardmore Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and private donors.

Funded by a combination of grants and fees, prices per class are charged on a sliding scale based on the ability to pay.

•Projects:

Chess Shop with WePAC at the Joseph Leidy School in West Philadelphia
Drumming-making at various locations including Leidy School, Eastern University summer camp, The John Gloucester House
Woodworking at Rhoads School for eight graders. Projects include making silk screens, catapults, electric guitars

•The Build-it Bus is handicap accessible.