The Nest is the garage makerspace of Okada Design. It focuses on:

• design challenges that celebrate process and foster explorations of nature through a range of natural materials
• connecting teens to their local environments
• conversations blending design, biology and engineering
• traditional cultural materials, modern materials, and indigenous cultural technologies for innovation inspiration

For the past fifteen years, Corinne Okada Takara has worked in collaboration with a range of San Francisco Bay Area museums and educational organizations in developing innovative STEAM programming for youth. Her work has been honored with national, state and local awards. Takara has led girls in NASA sponsored Future Engineers 3D printing design challenges since 2014 and along the way has mentored junior national winners, finalists and semi-finalists, as well as one teen national finalist and semi-finalist.  In 2019 she led the GIY Bio Buddies in the Biodesign Challenge. The team won Runner Up (the Second Place Prize) and Outstanding Field Research. The Nest garage lab is an incubation space for developing maker exploration with biology.

Groups interested in STEAM, biomaterial design, and innovative K-12 explorations in environmental systems issues are welcome to contact Takara for custom workshops. 
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