Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT)

RAFT’s mission is to help parents and educators transform a child’s learning experience through hands-on education. We help bridge the education gap for students and communities by offering engaging Steam resources to encourage the next generation of innovators, problem solvers, and creators. RAFT does this by providing Steam Project Kits, Maker Mobile van visits and makerspace builds, Steam summer camps, tailored educator workshops, and free, online, learning activity sheets. RAFTs unique found engineering process repurposes donated materials that would have otherwise been sent to the landfill into accessible, low cost, Steam Project Kits and assembled by volunteers. Educators, and now parents, can become RAFT members and shop at the warehouse store facility for affordable items devoted to hands-on learning.

RAFT’s vision is to inspire the next generation of innovators, problem solvers, and creators, by providing educators with STEAM learning resources.