Programs
One path, four steps.
A school signs up. Every student builds the same $40 kit. The ones who keep building pitch for a grant and get a mentor. Here is each piece, and the page that runs it.
01
Schools and teachers
Free build days
We bring a project-based STEM program to schools the labs never reached, taught live over video by two teen teachers. Tuition is $0. The $40 kit per student is covered by our backers, so the school never sees a bill.
Partner a school →02
Every student who joins
The kit and the curriculum
Everyone builds the same thing: a $40 air-quality monitor, from five real parts and code they write themselves. The curriculum runs a session every week or two, and a platform tracks each build in between.
See the kit →03
Teen builders in Marin and Fremont
Pitch competition
Already building something your community needs? Pitch it. The cohort we pick gets a mentor and a grant up to $1,500, half on signing and half when you demo it working. You keep what you make.
How the contest works →04
The students who keep going
Mentorship
The builders who stick with it get paired with a mentor who has shipped real things. It is a rolling, always-open application on both sides: builders get matched, and adults can apply to coach one.
Become a mentor →Every step costs the student nothing.
The workshop is free. The kit is paid for. The grant is real money, not a prize certificate. A student starts at the first step and never hits a paywall.
- $0
- Tuition, always
- $40
- Kit per student
- $1,500
- Top pitch grant
Start here
Two ways to begin.
Sign up to teach or to bring the program to your school, or back the work so the next cohort gets funded.