Premium Quality, Beautiful Junk

What's in the "Junkyard" of Junkyard Sports?

Here are two things that aren't junk: garbage and trash. Though you can find good junk in both.

Junk is all that stuff you have around you that you haven't used in the last three years but you keep around anyway, just in case.

And all the junk stored in garages and attics, in warehouses and even junkyards - these are all junk.

Sports junk. Toy junk. Fun junk. Car junk. Useful junk. Silly junk. Junk you should be throwing away already. But you don't, because it's good junk. Quality junk. In fact, premium quality junk.

I found this on a kids' site called "Build it Yourself. And I liked the idea of "Premium Quality Junk" so much that I had to share it with you. Because it comes so close to defining just the kind of junk one would hope to find in the junkyard of Junkyard Sports. Of course, this junkyard is for projects - you know, things to make. And it's for kids. And it's an educational program, full of lessons and activities and things to think about so that "students (can) use technology to resolve or better understand important social issues in a playful way." And they're for-profit, which, considering the kinds of money one finds in the world of education, admirable, at least; and they have an after-school robot-building program that looks like the very exact thing I'd want my grand kids to experience, and they seem to have some connection to MIT.

Junk can be beautiful, too. See the appropriately described and correspondingly educational "Beautiful Junk."