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The Toolkit and Robotics & Beyond
The Toolkit is a weekly email newsletter that curates STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and creative-design content for parents and students, from at-home activities to cool YouTube videos and new coding platforms. It’s a guide to STEM education.
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Robotics & Beyond, the STEM nonprofit behind The Toolkit, was founded in 2004 in New Milford, Connecticut. We grew from an annual summer camp into a dedicated center for after-school programs, weekend sessions, and continuing education. We serve a diverse audience and connect a network of parents, mentors, teachers, and students.
In the past 16 years we have hosted over 20,000 hours of volunteer time, served over 2,800 students, and supported 130 peer mentorships. We’ve been there for the boom in STEM education, learned about Minecraft, set up our own servers, built robots, and sent students off to tech-company internships and engineering careers at Apple. We have adapted to all kinds of learning styles and student experiences, developing programming for any child.
The Toolkit is our project to bring our expertise to a wider digital audience. Particularly during COVID-19 quarantine, parents and students need ways to access STEM education at home. There are many resources on the internet, but we offer a clear guide to what’s worthwhile, accessible, and useful, as well as our original content that we’ve found works best with our students.
Our Team
Newsletter Writer: Caroline Delbert
Newsletter Editor: Kyle Chayka
Robotics & Beyond Co-Founder: Paul Chayka
Students at one of Robotics & Beyond’s summer camp sessions.
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.