A Thousand K12 Kids in America will Learn AI & Robotics

Less than 1% of K12 students in America receive robotics education today. — Brookings Institution

Across the country, we keep seeing the same turning point: a student who never thought of themselves as “a tech kid” writes their first line of code, debugs their first robot, and suddenly their future looks different.

In South Los Angeles, a community robotics club helped three 13-year-olds build a competition robot and board a plane to an international event—transforming “kids from this ZIP code don’t do that” into “we’re world competitors.” On the Navajo Nation, students from a tiny high school on a remote mesa built a robot that carried them all the way to a global championship, proving that talent is universal even when opportunity is not. In a rural English class, robots rolled in alongside novels, and students who thought they were “bad at math” finished the term believing they could actually learn computer science.

These are glimpses of what happens when AI and robotics education finally reaches students who’ve been watching the future from the outside.

But right now, those stories are still rare. Most schools are years behind the technologies that will define their students’ jobs. Many high-performing teens quietly use AI tools on homework without ever being taught how AI works, how to use it ethically, or how to turn it into real skills. And in too many communities—urban, rural, and tribal—hands-on robotics and AI learning still doesn’t exist at all.

We believe that has to change, and we are inviting you to help us change it.

We are launching a focused campaign:

Help 1,000 K–12 students get future-ready with AI and Robotics learning.
Campaign goal: $203,000.

For our programs, $203 enables one child to get future-ready for one full year.

That $203 per student helps us to:

• Put age-appropriate robots, sensors, and AI learning tools into their classroom.
• Deliver story-driven curricula that connect AI and robotics to real life, not just theory.
• Train and support teachers, so the program lives inside the school instead of as a one-off event.
• Track and share outcomes, so you can see exactly how your support is changing trajectories.

Here is how you can join this campaign:

• Individuals: A gift of $203 sponsors one student for a full year. $406 sponsors two. $1,015 sponsors a small group of five.
• Companies and foundations: $20,300 sponsors 100 students. Larger gifts can underwrite entire schools, districts, or regions, and help build a visible talent pipeline for your future workforce.
• Schools and districts: Partner with us to bring AI and robotics learning into your classrooms, especially where students currently have little to no access.

AI and robotics will shape who gets hired, which communities thrive, and how fairly opportunity is distributed in the next decade. The only real question is whether today’s K–12 students—especially those without privilege or access—are left to consume those technologies, or prepared to build and lead them.

If you believe a child in South LA, on the Navajo Nation, in a rural town, or in a “good” suburban school should all have the same chance to become future-ready, this is your moment to act.

Join our campaign.
Help 1,000 students gain a year of real AI and robotics learning.
Be part of reaching our $203,000 goal—one $203 future at a time.