Five weeks on your campus. Three disciplines. Three finished works.

Mobile After School Arts Inc. is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation building a tuition-free mobile glass-arts program for high school students. We partner with schools and educational institutions to bring specialized, hands-on glass instruction directly to students who would otherwise have little or no access to it.

The five-week program is designed to demonstrate four things at once — educational value, student engagement, operational feasibility, and safe, professionally supervised instruction — while giving every student the chance to design and make finished work of their own.

It is a single annual program, not a menu. Five weeks at each of eight campuses adds up to forty weeks on the road and roughly 600 students a year. MASA raises the funds the program runs on: there is no cost to the student and no program or staffing cost to the host school.

A central MASA priority is reaching young people who would not otherwise have access to specialized glass-arts opportunities. We do not decide who those students are from the outside. Identifying and enrolling them is developed in partnership with the host school, because school personnel know their students and know what they need.

The intent is plain: expand access — particularly for young people who have had little opportunity to experience hands-on glassmaking.

Each discipline uses distinctly different materials, tools, processes and forms of creative problem-solving. The three-work structure gives every student a broad introduction to glass as a creative material, while leaving enough room for individual ideas and choices to show in the finished object.

Students who develop a particular interest in one of the three disciplines may request additional instructional time during MASA's five-week stay — subject to available space, scheduling and instructional capacity.

MASA develops and maintains its own curriculum and instructional model, and works with each host institution to align the program — where it makes sense — with school priorities, College and Career Readiness goals, and what the students actually need.

At the end of each instructional day, students may complete a brief exit ticket about their experience. Student voice is an important part of evaluating the program, and part of how we stay honest about the mission.

Educational outcome and assessment language can be refined in collaboration with educators — we would rather write that part with you than hand it to you — while preserving MASA's core instructional model.

At the conclusion of the five-week deployment, MASA and the host school present a student exhibition of the work created during the program. It gives students the chance to see their own work shown publicly, and to share what they made with families, school personnel and the community.

MASA helps organise and coordinate the exhibition. The host school determines the timing and location and provides the display arrangements.

Students own and keep everything they make. Any work held back for the exhibition is returned to the student afterwards — the three pieces go home with the person who made them.

MASA treats safety and institutional approval as part of the program design. Before a deployment, we work with the host institution and — as appropriate — insurance professionals, fire/life-safety advisers and legal counsel to address the things that actually have to be settled before the furnace is lit: