Program updates

Get involved

Help younger students build their first robots

Mentor, host workshops, talk with us about a program in your community, or donate. Each path starts with an email or a link on this page.

Looking for classes for a student instead? See program availability and updates.

Mentor

Mentor at our in-person workshops

A mentor in glasses leans between two students at laptops, with breadboard circuits on the table in front of them.
In-person workshop ยท Summer 2024 Laptops and breadboard circuits side by side, with a mentor at the table.

Our mentoring happens at our in-person workshops in South Brunswick. Mentors work with students while they build: helping them find what's wrong when something doesn't work, and explaining the idea behind it. Our mentors are high school students.

What mentors help with

  • Wiring breadboard circuits and tracking down loose or misplaced connections
  • Explaining voltage, current, resistance, and Ohm's law
  • Reading and fixing Arduino code in C++
  • Servo circuits, CAD in Onshape, and 3D-printed project parts

We'll talk through the schedule and what a session involves before you commit. The next in-person session hasn't been scheduled yet, so this would be for a future session.

Being explored Dates not announced

Mentoring online workshops isn't possible yet because they haven't launched. When they do, mentors will help in supervised group sessions with simulated circuits, code, CAD models, and project explanations, after an orientation and a practice lesson. If you're interested, say so in your email.

Email us about mentoring

Tell us your school, grade, and what you'd like to help with.

Host or partner

Host workshops, or talk about a program in your community

Near South Brunswick: host in-person workshops

If you run a school program, library, community organization, or local business near South Brunswick and could host workshops, help us reach families, or work with us another way, we'd like to hear from you. Since our first session, our workshops have been held at Code Ninjas in Kendall Park.

Email us about hosting

Being explored No other branches yet

Somewhere else: discuss a local program

We're exploring local branches: groups in other communities running workshops with RoboZone's teaching approach. No other branches exist yet, and there's no application process, funding, or starter kit. If you'd like to bring hands-on robotics to your community, we're glad to talk about what might be possible.

Hosting workshops doesn't make an organization a RoboZone branch, and RoboZone's fiscal sponsorship doesn't extend to partner organizations.

Discuss a local program

Donate

Support RoboZone

RoboZone is fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are made on HCB, Hack Club's platform for the projects it sponsors.

Donate on HCB

The donate button opens RoboZone's donation page on HCB. Questions about a donation? Email team@robozonenj.org.