Gadget Lab

Gadget Lab offers hands-on projects where kids can Solder A Cookie, Make A Ukulele, Design A T-Shirt, Take Something Apart, Find Music In Everyday Objects, and Make a copper flashlight. The program runs GadgetHeads workshops, CodeHeads workshops, and Arts and Design workshops that use a project-based approach where participants make things and study how they work. By the time participants make a copper flashlight they know how the batteries make electricity, enough about circuitry to explain the unique circuit that powers the device, how the LED produces light, and that an LED is actually a solar panel backwards.

Gadget Lab operates under the premise that homes are a laboratory of joy and learning. The leadership team includes Karen Giacopuzzi as Founder and Owner, Karen Giacopuzzi as Instructor and Owner, Jason Mullinax for Music, and Rustom Meyer for Circuits and Engineering. Gadget Lab collaborates with local talent to include music, art, and instrument making, and offers a range of STEAM learning opportunities taught by experts. Workshops have a “Screentime” rating and include a list of the skills for a Tech Resume where kids keep track of what they have learned, and the Tech Resume can be used for summer job applications or for bragging to relatives. Gadget Lab has partnered with local nonprofits like Passion for Learning and Carpe Diem Art to bring workshops to a broader audience through after school and summer school programming. In 2013 the founder did not know about the Raspberry Pi micro controller, and in 2014 the founder became aware of these developments and started Gadget Lab. One parent said, “I could not have been happier with GadgetLab. My 8 year old son was excited to go to each session and came back happy and thoroughly engaged with each new project they made. A+”

Last updated July 20, 2026.