About
Curious Jane offers project-based summer camps that include classes such as Toy Design, FabLab, Light It Up, Make It Wear It, and DIY Your Room. The program also creates and uses original project content that is developed in its Brooklyn workspace for its camps, magazine, and online resources. In addition to in-person activities, Curious Jane shares step-by-step project ideas through a project blog and a quarterly maker magazine.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Multi-week summer sessions with options ranging from 2-week to 6-week programs
Curious Jane states that its mission is to build confidence through making things. The program describes itself as being for girls who like to make things, with a core audience of girls ages 6 to 12, and notes that teens also use its magazine and online DIY projects. It describes its style as collaborative, colorful, and fun, and describes its approach as open-source DIY.
Curious Jane prints an ad-free maker magazine that is published quarterly and delivered to subscribers’ homes. The program also offers an online project blog with quick videos and step-by-step how-tos, and users can search for their maker style to find a curated set of projects. Curious Jane develops its content in a Brooklyn workspace and uses it for its own offerings and in collaboration with like-minded organizations.
Curious Jane licenses its content for publishing and to entrepreneurial young women who want to bring Curious Jane to their own communities, using the phrase “Start a camp, build a business!” to describe this model. The program notes that it is “project-making all the time” and that registration is open for 2026.
Last updated February 6, 2026.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Multi-week summer sessions with options ranging from 2-week to 6-week programs
Curious Jane states that its mission is to build confidence through making things. The program describes itself as being for girls who like to make things, with a core audience of girls ages 6 to 12, and notes that teens also use its magazine and online DIY projects. It describes its style as collaborative, colorful, and fun, and describes its approach as open-source DIY.
Curious Jane prints an ad-free maker magazine that is published quarterly and delivered to subscribers’ homes. The program also offers an online project blog with quick videos and step-by-step how-tos, and users can search for their maker style to find a curated set of projects. Curious Jane develops its content in a Brooklyn workspace and uses it for its own offerings and in collaboration with like-minded organizations.
Curious Jane licenses its content for publishing and to entrepreneurial young women who want to bring Curious Jane to their own communities, using the phrase “Start a camp, build a business!” to describe this model. The program notes that it is “project-making all the time” and that registration is open for 2026.
Last updated February 6, 2026.
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