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Hot Rod Go-Kart heads for Art Car Parade!

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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Fresh off completing their low-riders for the Los Magificos Custom Car Show in the fall, 8th grade students Clarence and Mike decided to embark on a collaborative project for May’s Art Car Parade: a hot-rod inspired  go-kart.

The project is giving them the opportunity to push the skills they have acquired in Chopper Shop over the last two years and make decisions as a team.  (more…)


Workshop Houston Holiday Party for Students

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Happy 2010!


Workshop Houston Holiday Break

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Workshop Houston’s holiday Break runs from Sunday, December 20th through Sunday, January 3rd.  We will reopen with regular our regular schedule Monday, January 4th, 2010! Happy New Year and see you in the next decade!


Big Thanks to JD2

Monday, December 14th, 2009

We want to extend a huge thank you to Kim and everyone at JD2 for generously donating a Tubing Bender, Die Set, and Tubing Notcher to Chopper Shop.  These tools are going to allow our students to push the quality and creativity of their Chopper Projects.  We are really excited and will post some pics of our new equipment in use as soon as we get it!


WSH at Los Magnificos

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Advanced Chopper Shop participants Mike and Clarence had a chance to show their custom bikes off at this year’s Los Magnificos 27th Annual Car and Bike Show .  On Sunday we took a field trip to see the guys’ bikes and to check out the Car Show.  We saw a lot of amazing work, got some good inspiration, and had a great time!  Thanks to Jon Chuck and everyone from Los Magnificos for entering us in the contest and putting on a great show.


We attended the art opening at the Art Car Museum

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Danny, Chris Bailey and Deshon James had a great time attending the art opening at the Art Car Museum on September 12.

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You can view the  Stretch Limo Go Cart, made by Chris,  on display in ‘Planes,Trains, Motorcycles and Automobiles’ at the Art Car Museum 140 Heights Boulevard


AUGUST BREAK

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Directly following the End of Summer Barbeque on August 1st, all Workshop Houston programs will be closed until Monday, August 31st. Sorry for any inconvenience and see you in September!


End of Summer Barbeque!

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Join us this Saturday, August 1st, to celebrate another great year of summer programs at Workshop Houston! Come by between 2pm-4pm for food, music, fun and the world premiere of the Summer Leadership Institute’s Workshop Houston Movie!


Shops Closed Thursday

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Beat shop, style shop, chopper shop, and scholar shop will be closed this Thursday as we will be on our trip to Austin.  Shop schedules resume as normal next Monday.


Stretch Limo Go Cart For Sale

Friday, June 5th, 2009

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Stretch Limo Go Cart

We are hoping to sell this unique and drivable work of art. The Stretch Limo Go Cart, created by Montrell and Chris in the Chopper Shop.

for more details contact us or check out this posting

http://houston.craigslist.org/rvs/1191858464.html