One of the places our STEM Kits initiative wanted to reach was orphanages in India, where kids often don't have the same access to hands-on science and engineering education that a lot of us take for granted.

So we put together curated STEM kits: project-based activities and materials, from simple circuit boards to hydraulics builds, designed to walk a kid through a real engineering concept without needing a classroom or a dedicated STEM teacher. Each kit included a brochure explaining the concepts inside, so a kid could work through it on their own or with a caretaker's help.

Students with the kits they finished building

A closer look at what goes inside one of the kits

We've sent 50 of these kits to India so far. The goal was never a one-off donation drive. It was to give kids in these communities the same kind of hands-on, curiosity-building experience that a science fair or a robotics club gives students elsewhere: something they could hold, build, and actually understand, not just read about.

This is one piece of a broader effort we keep building on: taking the STEM Kits model wherever access to hands-on STEM education, not interest, is the actual barrier.