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+1 647-885-9127
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192 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5T
Alexandra Park, Downtown Core
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430 ftSullivan Street
450 ftSullivan
660 ftQueen Street
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Specialties
STEAMLabs is a non-profit community makerspace, where people of all ages and abilities come together for access to high tech tools, to learn, and to create. It’s a place where Science, Technology Engineering, Art and Math can all be used to invent the future; a place where your imagination can come to play!
Located in the heart of Toronto at 192 Spadina avenue at Queen, STEAMLabs will anchor the ground floor of the new 64,000 square foot headquarters of the Centre for Social Innovation.
With a target opening date of June 2015, STEAMLabs will be an entry point for both kids and adults looking to get started in digital fabrication, coding, hands-on making and electronics. It’s also a space for seasoned makers, entrepreneurs and artists looking to work with serious tools needed to get things done. We will offer full access memberships as well as stand-alone after school programs, weekend workshops and plenty of drop-in open make times.
History
Established in 2012.
Andy Forest and Marianne Mader founded the first not for profit kids’ Makerspace in Toronto together in 2012. Thousands of kids aged 8 to 12 used real tools to make amazing projects like soapbox racecars, boats, and robotic nerf guns. They had lots of fun, and they gained essential skills like problem solving and tech literacy.
Meet the Business Owner
Andy Forest F.
Business Owner
Andy is an innovator and a thought leader in education and connected learning. His passion and purpose are to empower kids and adults to invent the future!
Along with Marianne Mader, he is the co-founder of the non-profit STEAMLabs (previously called Maker Kids, not to be confused with the for-profit corporation MakerKids Inc.). As a founding member of the Mozilla HIVE Toronto network, Andy has provided assistance to numerous other youth digital literacy organizations. Andy was chosen as a Pioneer in the LEGO Foundation and Ashoka’s Re-imagine Learning Challenge. The Pioneers are educator-innovators using the transformative power of play to unlock learning and development benefits in young thinkers.
