Student Makers: teen volunteers are teaching STEM across three continents
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In 2022, a group of high schoolers designed 150 LEGO-inspired airplane kits, 3D-printed them one by one, assembled them by hand, and shipped them to a school in Kenya. How is that for a nonprofit origin story? Student Makers was founded in California in 2019 and got its 501(c)(3) status in 2026. Nearly everyone who runs it is a teenager. The instructors are former participants, students who completed the program a semester or two earlier, which is how a teen-
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