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 THE HOBBY QUEST MISSION STATEMENT
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The Hobby Quest: Mission Craftsmanship
"Craftsmanship teaches children responsibility and
respect for their creation."
Our mission is to enable children to learn the life skills in order to become successful and emotionally healthy adults. The Hobby Quest provides each student with a clean and quiet environment to work, necessary tools, materials, and patient, educated instructors, allowing him/her to improve their craft skills.
The Hobby Quest teaches it's students:
1. To prepare for a task: Gathering necessary information like reading the plans and instructions, gathering the right tools, equipment and controlling the impulsive desire to jump in headfirst.
2. To follow directions: This often means acknowledging the expertise of others and realizing that he or she needs instructional help with a task.
3. To tolerate frustration: A difficult, new, lengthy and complex project will always go wrong in small ways. A mature individual sees these obstacles as temporary problems to be solved.
4. To know when to shift focus away from a compelling task: Inherent in any significant undertaking is the necessity of letting go temporarily in order to rest and regain a fresh enthusiasm to a difficult problem.
5. To finish a project completely: It seems to happen so often, that the attention to detail demonstrated at the start of a project is abandoned near the end.
6. Pride and respect in creation: A child who has built a real airplane model or other hobby craft project, one that works well, feels pride in ownership. The use of the new model will give them a new, larger self. Their successfully built and working project is their own reward and self made trophy.
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The 3 Laws Of The Hobby Quest
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A hobbyist will always build from scratch, not pre-made
A hobbyist will always respect their hand made creation
A hobbyist will always be organized in a clean workspace
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