With CreativeLabz PSC is launching a new innovative science education program that aims to promote self-confidence, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and leadership in youth. The core of the project is a series of six consecutive workshops on Wednesday afternoons and intensive week-long projects. Participants can engage in themes such as investigations of plant intelligence, growing food on Mars, building robots for plant care, bio-communication and soft robotics. The team of workshop facilitators consist of University of Zurich and ETH Zurich biology and environmental science students and Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK) art education students. The workshops hands-on approach as an inquiry-based educative practice. Making or tinkering is important to MINT education as it embeds science and engineering in purposeful and valued activities, engendering MINT practice rather than MINT skills. Through interdisciplinary connections of art, science and engineering, with a long engagement of several weeks, we hope to create substantive connections across MINT and the arts. The benefits of learner-driven enquiry are well documented in science education literature and are based on the theory of making or ‘doing’ in a social context. Necessary for the success of this educational practice is a tripartite focus on tools, community infrastructure and tinkering-mindsets. A tinkering mindset is direct experience, experimentation and discovery. It is cognitively and socially richer than simply assembling a robot from a kit. Tinkering involves active testing and failing.