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About us
Built by an engineer who is also a dad
Kids Trade Academy teaches kids and teens the tools and repairs that every adult is quietly expected to already know — one hour, one repair, at a time.
- Instructor
- Soroosh Majidi
- Day job
- Aerospace systems engineer
- Field
- Crewed spacecraft & habitats
- Kids of his own
- Four
- Based in
- Gilbert, Arizona
I spend my working life on systems where a person's safety depends on a procedure being written clearly enough that someone can follow it under pressure. Then I come home to four kids who cannot hang a picture.
That gap is what this is. Not a craft class and not a woodworking club — a short, repeatable course in the tools and repairs that every adult is quietly expected to already know, taught with the same care I would put into a procedure somebody has to get right the first time.
Every class is written down: a run of show to the minute, a materials list, the specific things that go wrong and what to do about them. My own kids were the first students, and they are still the toughest audience I have.
How we teach
Six things that do not change
A run of show to the minute
Every class has a written plan, a materials list and the specific things that go wrong. Nobody is winging it.
One subject, three jobs
Helpers (6–9), Builders (10–13) and Apprentices (14–16) work the same repair at their own level, in the same room.
Every kid touches the tool
No demo-only hour. Everybody drives a screw, patches a hole, turns a valve.
Licenses before tools
The drill at 10+ and the utility knife at 14+, each earned by demonstration in class before it is used.
Knowing when to stop
Kids rehearse the moment it goes wrong — walking away and getting an adult, out loud, in front of everyone.
Not a drop-off
You stay in the room for the whole class. Most parents end up learning the drywall patch too.
Our motto
Learn · Build · Ask
Learn
What the tool is, what it is actually for, and the one way people get hurt with it.
Build
Hands on the real thing: a real repair, or something you take home.
Ask
Not sure? Stop and ask. It is the last of the Tool Rules, said out loud at the start of every class.
The business
Where to find us
- Company
- Kids Trade Academy, LLC · an Arizona company
- Where
- Gilbert, AZ area. For private events, co-ops and scout troops, we come to you.
- Ages
- Tool classes 6–16 · Car Basics 10–18
- Phone / text
- (480) 256-2381
Next step
Come build something
Tell me your kids’ ages and what you want them to be able to do, and I will tell you which class to start with.