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Dissassembly Workshop - Educating the Users

Toshiba hold workshops wherein children take apart household appliances and personal computers. Our purpose is to let children experience how interesting and mysterious science is, and feel the fun of manufacturing.
As volunteer Toshiba Group employees who take part as the "Disassembly Doctors" give guidance in how to use tools and how the product mechanisms work, the children proceed to disassemble products that are no longer usable for shop displays or other such purposes. The children start out being assigned problems by the Doctors so that they can be aware of the operation of the parts as they proceed with the disassembly. After they have taken the products apart, they separate out the materials by plastic, metal, and so on, to also learn about recycling.
These workshops were held a total of 26 times from 2005 to the end of FY2012.
The employee volunteers have also started a Disassembly Workshop Promotion Working Group that has been discussing improvements to the program and explanatory methods that the children will find easier to understand.

Let's Try Disassembling a Vacuum Cleaner

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Location: Leicester, UK

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