SMC Office of Sustainability

Saturday, October 28th, 2017, 11am to 2pm
455 County Center, 1stFl, Rm 101, Redwood City

Join the Sustainability Academy in our inaugural Fixit Clinic! Fixit Clinics are community-based educational workshops where neighbors, friends, and families work collectively to learn how to repair their broken items. Bring your broken electronics, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, bicycles, fabric items, etc. for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We'll provide 1) workspace 2) specialty tools and 3) volunteer Fixit Coaches to consult with you on the disassembly and troubleshooting of your items.
Being a Fixit Coach is easy. At the most basic level, all you do is provide participants 1) guidance with tools and 2) encouragement to investigate their broken item. Be a listener more than a repairer. Let them talk about how they used it and how it broke. That often provides valuable hints as to what's wrong. See how much you can do without actually handling the item. Empower the item's owner to do the troubleshooting and disassembly. Move among items and consult with others to cross-train and maximize transfer of knowledge.

If you are interested in being a Fixit Coach, please sign up here: http://goo.gl/kwVNlv

Register to attend the clinic: http://goo.gl/qTzh9J

For more information on Fixit Clinic: www.fixitclinic.org, https://www.facebook.com/FixitClinic/, https://plus.google.com/+FixitClinic