Hands-On STEM Education Resources

These hands-on STEM education assets and associated online courseware can easily be distributed to students in distance learning situations.

BrainCo grew out of the Harvard Innovation Lab. They develop cognitive training technology products and apply their expertise in machine learning, design, and neuroscience to create innovative cognitive-based applications. The BrainCo team is most famous for developing the award-winning Dexus Prosthetic Hand, a revolutionary device changing amputees' lives everyday. Now, with the introduction of the STEM Hand, BrainCo is sharing their genius with STEM education.

The STEM Hand
The BrainCo STEM Hand is a multi-grade compatible STEM solution. It brings standards-aligned project-based learning to school and after school environments. The hand is currently available in kit form and RTR (ready-to-run). The hand and controller can be disassembled and reused repeatedly.

Sphero makes undeniably-cool, programmable robots and STEAM-based educational tools that transform the way kids learn, create, and invent through coding, science, music, and the arts. The Sphero ecosystem of tools and content gives kids, teachers, and parents of all learning and coding abilities a blank canvas to solve challenges at home, in school, and beyond.

Kids don’t just want to code, they want to use their imagination to create epic experiences. Sphero goes #BeyondCode and inspires kids to learn, build, create, and turn their imagination into a reality. Most importantly, Sphero makes it fun.

littleBits is a platform of easy-to-use electronic building blocks that empower you to invent anything, from your own remote controlled car, to a smart home device. The Bits snap together with magnets, no soldering, no wiring, no programming needed.

The intuitive, color-coded Bits™ each have a specific function (ie. motion, lights, sound, sensors, internet connectivity), and all the Bits snap together with magnets to make larger circuits. Building circuits is simple and intuitive, allowing students to create powerful, sophisticated electronics in a matter of seconds. With an ever-expanding library of Bits, educators and students can grow their collection and engage in increasingly complex projects as their understanding of the system and Bits grows.

Kid Spark Education (formerly Rokenbok Education) is a nonprofit organization working with educators to provide fun, hands-on engineering education programs that help all children, especially children from underrepresented communities, develop STEM identity and technology fluency.

Kid Spark Education programs make it possible for any caring educator to teach STEM, even with their youngest students. The elementary and middle school programs are especially effective at helping children to see themselves as critical thinkers and problem solvers.

Makey Makey is an electronic invention tool that allows users to connect everyday objects to computer programs. Using a circuit board, alligator clips, and a USB cable, the toy uses closed loop electrical signals to send the computer either a keyboard stroke or mouse click signal. This function allows the Makey Makey to work with any computer program or webpage since all computer programs and webpages take keyboard and mouse click inputs.

About Learning Labs
For over half a century, Learning Labs has been dedicated to the promotion and implementation of hands-on learning in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. While the acronym "STEM" or "STEAM" has become very popular in recent years, for us it's "old school."

Learning Labs specializes in providing the tools teachers need to make their classrooms into modern creative centers for exploration and invention. Our experienced staff are experts at transforming normally boring areas into exciting Maker Spaces by providing equipment such as 3D printers, CNC machines, laser cutters/engravers, waterjets, etc.

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