KIDS SHOULD MAKE THINGS.
Our mission is to provide project plans, materials, and support to kids to create in their homes, libraries, and community spaces.
Everything they make, they keep.
Kids are capable of projects like...
backyard construction 🪛
gardening in soil and water 🌱
circuits and electricity ⚡️
3D modeling and printing ideas 🧠
expressing with digital design 🖥️
create digital worlds 🌐
Community
By working with community spaces we pursue delivering directly to learners.
Interest Driven
Learners have the choice to personalize what they make within the scaffold of our projects.
Scaled Support
Human and AI chat systems help learners overcome technical and conceptual challenges.
Community space includes:
Urban Neighborhood Centers • Local Libraries
Native American Tribal Centers • Rural Community Organizations
"Can I have a kit to take home and work on?"
- my students
Mike Amato
Mr. Mike or Maker Mike
Growing up I experienced K-8 public school, online highschool, in-person & online university. If I wasn't moving or doing, I wasn't learning. I wanted to make and create things. Every day I thought, "someone will come and fix this." Its 2024 and I'm still waiting.
Kids Should Make Things is here to innovatively solve the problems that stand in the way of kids seeing something inspiring and being able to make it.
Guiding Principles
Kits, content, and tech let us be there when we can't be in person.
Learning content should be as engaging as your favorite social feed.
Create for all kids, knowing some learn without schools, systems, or guardians.
"I could start a GoFundMe or something, so the other kids can experience it too."
- 8th grade student after STEM program ended