A 501(c)(3) run by high schoolers · Bay Area, California
Projects · Cohort 01 · 0 published
Cohort 01 is our first group of builders. When their builds ship, they publish here with the builder named, the parts priced, and the outcome stated. Nothing has shipped yet. We'd rather show you an empty page than a fake one.
01The bar
four parts, every time
When a build lands on this page, it lands whole. The same four things, every time. That’s the deal we’re making with you before the first one ships.
First name and region, with their permission. A real kid who agreed to be named. No composites, ever.
What they set out to fix, in their own words. Bad classroom air counts. So does a broken irrigation timer.
What it cost, line by line, down to the $6 ESP32 microcontroller.
A working demo, or it doesn't publish. Outcome stated plainly, photos included.
02How a build gets funded
48 teachers waiting
$1,500
The top pitch grant. The money follows working hardware, not a slide deck: half pays on signing, half when the build demos working.
Free build days at partner schools, taught over video by our student teachers.
Five real parts. The student wires it, codes it, and keeps the board.
Standouts pitch a build and get a mentor and money. Half pays on signing, half at a working demo.
The first builds come out of classrooms that already asked: 48 teachers at 27 schools are on the demand wall.
03Back a build
$40 starts one
A microcontroller, a sensor, a breadboard, a readout, and a battery. Someone pays for the parts, a student builds the thing, and this page gets its first project.