Tynkertopia is a place filled with opportunities to play, invent and launch imaginations into overdrive! Designed for kids, parents, teachers, and community members, Tynkertopia builds STEAM skills and encourages independent thinking, questioning, inquiring, designing, building, exploring and tinkering!
Apr 23, 2024
Dr. Alice Christie, Founder and CEO of Tynkertopia has been an
educator for the last 56 years. She taught in the K-12 arena for 20
years, was a professor of education at Arizona State University for
20+ years and spent 9 years traveling to 37 states to provide STEM
education workshops to over 5000 PK-12 teachers. In 2017, she
founded and self-funded Tynkertopia, Inc. (a 501(c)(3) non-profit
corporation in Flagstaff, AZ. Dr. Christie received her Ph.D. in Language and Literacy and
Educational Technology in 1995. She served first as assistant
professor, then as associate professor at Arizona State University.
She retired in 2008 as ASU President’s Professor Emerita. This
designation is one of Arizona State University’s most prestigious
faculty honors. It is designed to reward enthusiasm and innovation
in teaching, the ability to inspire original and creative work by
students, mastery of subject matter and scholarly contributions.
Only 36 professors at ASU hold this title. Tynkertopia, Inc. is a non-profit community center in Flagstaff,
AZ. We focus on creativity, inquiry, and STEAM knowledge and
skills. Flagstaff is America’s First STEM Community, and
Tynkertopia is Flagstaff’s STEAM Community Center. STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) + A for the Arts =
STEAM.