Ready-to-run projects kids remember, and you can start this week.
Inspired by family. Built for curious minds.Inspire. Create. Explore. Together.Creative Dad Company builds projects educators can use now while developing tools that make ambitious creative work easier to organize and produce.
A growing K–12 library of more than 275 experiences combining STEM, art, storytelling, career exploration, and real-world problem-solving.
A working prototype that brings story development, worldbuilding, project assets, interactive puzzles, media production, campaign planning, and publishing into one organized workspace.
Jason Padgett is an award-winning educational experience designer, curriculum developer, media producer, and youth-program leader based in Cleveland, Tennessee.
For more than seven years, he has designed and led hands-on STEM, workforce-development, media-production, entrepreneurship, and career-readiness experiences for young people. His work includes project-based curriculum, youth podcast and video teams, immersive themed events, paid internships, and national presentations on work-based learning.
His approach to youth development and educational innovation has earned Trailblazer recognition at both the organizational and regional levels.
Jason is also a husband and father of two. Fatherhood helped inspire Creative Dad Company and its belief that curiosity, creativity, and meaningful time spent building together can shape how children see themselves and the world.
Notes on learning, building with kids, Creative Dad Projects, and the storyworld taking shape in the Studio.
Most of my ideas begin with two words: “What if?”
Read the first post →Creative Dad Company partners with schools, youth organizations, museums, nonprofits, publishers, educational companies, and creative agencies from initial concept through implementation.
Professor Pumpernickel is an original educational storyworld being developed through Creative Dad Studio.
The adventure follows Alexander Pumpernickel, a brilliant young inventor investigating a mysterious force known as the Hoobawhatsit—the energy of learning. His search leads through forgotten experiments, encoded transmissions, unusual machines, hidden organizations, and discoveries that suggest his world is far larger and stranger than he imagined.
The experience combines original characters, cinematic worldbuilding, interactive inventions, puzzles, physical artifacts, and audience participation across digital experiences, curriculum, video, books, live presentations, and other educational media.
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