The Tinker Project

Little things that make a big difference.

We are a nonprofit that 3D-prints fidgets and gives them to schools and shelters for free.

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Why we exist

A fidget is a small thing. Going without one isn’t.

Teachers are paying for this themselves

Fidgets help a lot of kids settle and focus, but they are not in any school budget. So teachers buy them out of their own pockets, a few at a time, and the classrooms with the least to spare are the ones most likely to go without.

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So we print them and give them away

We print fidgets on our own 3D printers and get them to schools and shelters at no cost, anywhere in the US.

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Work with kids who could use fidgets?

Tell us who you are and roughly how many you need. There is no cost and nothing to sign.

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