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The Toolkit: A free weekly STEM education newsletter for parents and students.

From Robotics & Beyond, 501(c)3 nonprofit

 

What we’re about:

• At-home STEM activities 🤖

• Cool YouTube videos 🎬

• Curated content for multiple age groups 🖥️

• Produced by journalists and scientists ✍️

• Vetted for kids and parents 👩‍🏫

During COVID-19 quarantine, learning at home has become a necessity. Technology offers tools like Zoom classes and there’s an overflow of online educational content. It’s a great time for students to learn about STEM topics: science, tech, engineering, and mathematics, as well as creative design. But not all parents have the necessary training or background. 

With The Toolkit we are bringing our educational expertise from 16 years of running a STEM nonprofit in New Milford, Connecticut, to an online audience. Every Monday in our weekly newsletter, we’ll curate the Internet’s wide swath of apps, platforms, YouTube videos, and DIY projects into a clear list of activities you can do at home. The goal is to provide stuff that can keep yours kids’ attention but also engage them in these tricky areas.

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The Toolkit is written by journalist Caroline Delbert, a writer for Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, and other technology and science publications. With the Robotics & Beyond staff and network, we source articles, videos, and activities from the wider Web each week and explain them — making sure the science is legit and the information is correct. Back-up is provided by editor Kyle Chayka and Robotics & Beyond co-founder Paul Chayka, a materials science engineer and educator, plus the rest of R&B’s network.

We want our digital newsletter to expand our preexisting physical community. If you have any questions, comments, or content you want to see, just email us at toolkitnewsletter@gmail.com. We’ll always answer.

The Toolkit is made possible by all the support given to our parent nonprofit Robotics & Beyond over its 16 years of history! Our students, mentors, and parents in Connecticut and New York have allowed us to keep going and launch new projects like this. We thank all of them.