Workshops: Imagine, Create and Share with Tinkercad!

Publication date: April 21, 2025

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, it is crucial to equip Vocational Education and Training (VET) students not only with technical competencies—such as coding, 3D modelling, and the Internet of Things (IoT)—but also with essential social skills, including collaboration, problem-solving, and creativity.

These skills are not just valuable for those pursuing a career in the tech industry but can open doors to a wide range of opportunities across various fields. The EU Code Week initiative developed this toolkit to support educators in facilitating VET learning activities for students aged 13 to 18.

The National Italian Hub of EU Code Week, led by Fondazione LINKS, offers two online workshops:
“Imagine, Create and Share with Tinkercad!”
These workshops are designed to collaboratively explore the toolkit, experiment with activities, and prepare educators to bring creative 3D projects into the classroom.

Join us for a creative and exploratory experience that turns Tinkercad into a real building material! Inspired by the WeScratch format (https://wescratch.media.mit.edu/), this online workshop offers an open, inclusive, and collaborative learning environment shaped by the MIT Media Lab’s Creative Learning principles.

You’ll engage in a hands-on, peer-to-peer experience that will help you guide your students in designing 3D objects—encouraging them to experiment, play with ideas, work on projects they care about, and share their creations.

Together, we will explore strategies to support learning through a concrete, meaningful project—within an inclusive, creative, and playful environment. The workshop is based on the 4Ps of Creative Learning: Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play.

🗓️ Workshop Dates & Registration

🇮🇹 Italian version: 13 May 2025
👉 Register here
🇬🇧 English version: 27 May 2025
👉 Register here

⏰ Duration:

1 hour and 30 minutes — from 17:00 to 18:30 CET

🎯 Target Audience:

Secondary school teachers and educators are the main target, but everyone interested is welcome to join — from lead teachers and educational coordinators to ambassadors, hub coordinators, and school teachers.
No prior experience required—just the desire to imagine, create, and share! ✨

💻 Format:

The workshop is online and interactive.
Technical requirements:

Access to Zoom
A Tinkercad account

👩‍🏫 Facilitators:

Flavio Renga, Marta Risoli, and Veronica Ruberti (EdTech researchers at Fondazione LINKS)

🎯 Workshop Learning Objectives:

Empower Educators – Provide tools and guidance to design and facilitate meaningful, project-based learning experiences.
Promote Technical Skills – Enhance students’ competencies in various technical fields.
Promote Inclusivity – Ensure all students, including girls and those at risk of being left behind, are engaged.
Foster Creativity – Use technology as a “construction material” for creative expression and problem-solving.
Grow the Online Community – Connect VET schools and educators focused on tech skills.

🧠 Workshop Approach

This workshop adopts the Creative Learning approach developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. This pedagogical framework emphasizes learning by creating personally meaningful projects, anchored in the 4Ps:

Projects
Passion
Peers
Play

According to this approach, learning should focus on projects learners are passionate about, while encouraging collaboration and playful experimentation as key routes to understanding.

These workshops are part of the Careers in Digital campaign by EU Code Week.