When tariffs canceled shipment of 100 STEAM kits, we decided to turn China’s* loss into a win for education, by donating them to teachers on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you are a teacher (or know one — including homeschoolers (James 3:1-3)), you can apply here
All teachers may apply. You must be willing to attend a short video introduction (Zometool Rules), document a session with kids, share the experience during a Zoom meeting with other teachers, and allow your school (or home school community) access to your STEAM kit. The kit will remain your property.
*we love our Chinese Partner, Ahaaa Math. Check out their (english language) Zometool app here
A letter to Teachers, from Mike Stranahan, Zometool cofounder:
May 2025
Dear Teachers,
Once a teacher, always a teacher…
For the rest of your lives, the Zometool will empower you and your pupils to become secret weapons of democracy… because the Zometool encourages and your pupils (and you!) to learn by following THEIR AMAZINGLY ACTIVE imagination, into a universe of infinite possibilities… and to believe their own eyes and hands and brains (not some human authority telling them about this universe).
The spontaneous cooperation that students develop among themselves while they work together on their (hundreds of) Zometool projects, will empower them to become real, secret weapons of democracy.
The Zometool will empower you to open doors (that STAY open) for your students and empower you AND THEM to walk through THOSE DOORS together, regardless of your, or their, politics, language or culture, social standing, economic standing, historical background, color of skin, or anything else under the sun.
The Zometool empowers you and your students to enter, explore and understand the universe of physics, chemistry, biology, of architecture, engineering, geometry, quantum math… and, hey, beauty, symmetry, and art! The Zometool revolutionizes how we look at the universe and how we fit in TO IT. It’s real, neat, simple, challenging, easy to get into, and once you’re in, you’re in for life…
But don’t take my word for it; take a STEAM kit, try it with kids, tell us about it (and keep it!) Apply here.
Much love from a former Math teacher, and a ZOME-lover
Mike
Michael Stranahan, co-founder