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Life skills through woodworking

Discover the intelligence in their hands.

 
 
 

Transform your classroom into a wood shop.

Watch our featured segment on CBS New York to witness firsthand the transformative power of woodworking in classrooms. Experience the magic of hands-on learning, where students explore, create, and build their future.

 

The Maplewoodshop Program brings the benefits of woodworking to today’s youth, improving attendance and graduation rates, reversing learning loss, and encouraging career exploration.

We provide everything you need — equipment, tools, materials, training, and curriculum — to motivate and inspire young people. 

Watch how we do it in 60 seconds!

Learn how it works

Any classroom can transform into a dynamic woodworking space that fosters creativity, empowerment, and accomplishment.

We Train your staff.

Our training program blends digital and in-person training for your teachers. Teachers watch videos and take quizzes on our online learning platform prior to in-person training. After the training, your teachers complete any projects they will do with their students. 

We equip you with all you need.

Turn your current classroom into a hand-tool woodshop in minutes. Empower students to help with set up and clean up. All hand tools come with safety gear, safety posters, and tool instruction to create a mindful and safe environment.

We support you every step of the way.

Our lesson plans, that align with national standards, bring your classroom or after-school program to life. They allow you to teach STEM and other curriculum in an interesting and engaging way! We also support you via email and phone support.

Transform any space into a functioning woodshop.

 
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SCHOOLS

Have shop regret? Empower students with an exciting curriculum that offers project-based learning throughout the school year across your Elementary, Middle and High Schools.

Campers and counselors woodworking at Camp Veritans

CAMPS

Engage campers with hands-on projects and inspire a lifelong hobby or potential career interest.

 

Explore the benefits of woodworking

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Benefits for Students

Project-Based Learning is tactile to keep all learners engaged and motivated

Social-Emotional Learning is at the core of our program

Recognized by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) as a precursor to their Career Connections curriculum


Teacher training session

Benefits for Teachers 

Curriculum for grades 4-9 and self-contained classrooms develops core competencies and aligns to national standards

Training delivered via Zoom and our online learning platform

Programming works with standard class durations as well as after school enrichment

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Benefits for Administrators

Standardized training and lesson plans to scale uniformly across classrooms

Support included the first year. Annual retraining and support available

Pricing starts at $1,200 and ranges to $25,000 or more depending on the number of students working concurrently and/or supplies and services rendered

Woodworking Builds A Lifetime of Life Skills!

 
Woodworking build life skills including pride, grit and confidence.
 

Our customers build us up.

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Asphalt Green

“With Maplewoodshop, with woodworking, the kids are highly engaged. And they’re engaged in ways I haven’t witnessed before. They are so focused on what they are making. They are so excited.”

- April Browne, Head of Asphalt Green Summer Day Camp

Fairview Lake

“For a camp director, there are few activities that hit as many life skills as woodworking.

It’s a great investment for the behaviors we want to see out of our kids”

Joel Gardner / Family and Adventure Coordinator, Fairview Lake YMCA Camps

Banyan School

“Woodworking enhances their interpersonal skills, their social-emotional learning and just gives them a forum within which they can be doing something hands-on and enjoy the process, and also be proud of their product.”

-Wendy McNeill, Principal, The Banyan School

Camp Veritans

“I think woodworking is a great outlet for kids. It allows them creativity. It’s physical. You’re using everything; your brain, you’re thinking, you’re acting with it.”

-Carla Rudrow, Director, Camp Veritans

Deeny Riback

“Campers really enjoyed woodworking. Campers who chose it as their week-long project were in the woodshed for an hour a day, for four to five days each week, and they made amazing projects.”
-Dana Gottfried, Director, Camp Deeny Riback, JCC Metrowest

Woodcliff Lake

“Maplewoodshop creates a new type of learner; it teaches students to slow down and think differently. They’re required to plan, and be very deliberate about everything, and [create] iterations of success. This process-driven mindset is a skill that will help them grow into adults that know how to achieve success.”

-Tom Nikolaidis, STEM Instructor, Woodcliff Lake Middle School

Deeny Riback

“Maplewoodshop was one of our most popular activities.”

-Dana Gottfried, Art Director, Camp Deeny Riback, JCC Metrowest

Camp Veritans

“Woodworking is building their self-confidence and their belief in themselves, which comes out later on through all different aspects of their lives.”

-Carla Rudrow, Director, Camp Veritans

Camp Veritans

“At camp, the kids learn things that they don’t get a chance to do anymore in the public schools. Programs have been cut. Now, they’ve had the opportunity to work with a handsaw to see how to measure and cut, and it just was amazing to see the excitement on the kids’ faces.”

-Carla Rudrow, Director, Camp Veritans

Woodcliff Lake

“Building the dog house, start to finish, was a great community project that went way beyond the classroom.”

-Tom Nikolaidis, STEM Instructor, Woodcliff Lake Middle School

 
 

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