Funding & Awards
Grant Spotlight: Free Gear for Your Makerspace from SparkFun
New for 2017, SparkFun has launched a formal grant program that is awarding prize packages and sponsorships on the monthly basis to educational and non-profit organizations to support makerspaces, coding, robotics labs and STEM- and STEAM-related activities.
SparkFun is not your usual ed tech company. Its focus is on “electronics literacy,” with a strong emphasis on making and coding. It specializes in distributing hardware based on open source designs and currently offers some 2,000 open source “components and widgets.”
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As for the new grant program, the SparkFun Community Partner program doesn’t award pre-determined prize packages. Rather, it asks applicants what their needs are (a package of products, a sponsorship,…
