Adafruit volume discounts and programs for educators

Adafruit offers volume discounts and special offers to educators purchasing Adafruit and Arduino products. Please contact support@adafruit.com if you're an educator and plan to place a large order for your students/workshops. We work with universities, book stores, we accept purchase orders and for large orders we can also create custom packs depending on your needs. We offer quantity discounts as well as specific discounts for educators. Please contact us to learn about our special packs, discounts and more for workshops, classes and students!

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Adafruit electronic kits, products and Arduino products for education

Adafruit offers some of the best materials online to teach electronics, many educators use Adafruit's products and tutorials as curriculum for learning electronics. Adafruit currently provides some of the top resources for learning Arduino, the open-source prototyping platform. Adafruit is the top-contributing company of Arduino libraries and has a fantastic assortment of official Arduino products. Adafruit is an authorized supplier of Arduino products, as well as having dozens of shields, sensors and other products to make teaching electronics fun and rewarding.

Adafruit products and Arduino for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Adafruit offers up our products, discounts, custom "packs" and tutorials in support of STEM programs for teachers and students at the U. S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and other agencies that offer STEM related programs.

http://www.stemedcoalition.org/

Adafruit iron-on "skill badges" / patches and partners

Adafruit offers fun and exciting "badges" of achievement for electronics, science and engineering. Please visit our badge section to purchase badges or contact us for more information on how educators can participate. We believe everyone should be able to be rewarded for learning a useful skill, a badge is just one of the many ways to show and share. From the "I CAN USE A LASER CUTTER" or "I CAN SOLDER" to "I LEARNED MICRO-CONTROLLERS" Adafruit has designed open-source badges to reward students, beginners and individuals who are learning with Adafruit products.

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Resources for educators

Please feel free to visit the Adafruit tutorials, there over 100 tutorials specifically written for beginners. The tutorials are written and maintained by MIT engineer and Adafruit founder, Limor Fried.



Adafruit for educators forum on Adafruit.com

Adafruit has a special new forum where educators can post questions, share information or get help with teaching electronics using Adafruit products. Our dedicated support team will help any educator that needs assistance with our products, around the clock, 24/7 - 365!

Adafruit's "For Educators" forum.

A message from our founder, Limor Fried

110Wired Our founder, Limor Fried, is a MIT trained engineer. She is the first female engineer on WIRED magazine's cover, named one of the "Most influential Women in Technology" by Fast Company and the winner of an EFF pioneer award for teaching and sharing electronics. She has been featured in hundreds of publications from Popular Science, New York Times to MAKE magazine. Here is a special message from her for educators wishing to use Adafruit products and Arduinos for education:

"Thank you for choosing Adafruit for your educator needs! At Adafruit we try our best to provide the best designed products, at great prices with the best support! Please feel free to post in our educator's forums if you have any questions, and thank you for inspiring and teaching the next generation of: artists, designers, engineers and scientists!" - Limor "Ladyada" Fried" - Founder, Adafruit Industries - MIT, EE/CS '05

Adafruit copyright permission for educators

Adafruit releases documentation under a Creative-Commons Share-alike, Attribution license. This allows educators to use Adafruit's tutorials without needing permission or to contact Adafruit. We want educators to use and share our tutorials and documentation, you're free to use them, remix them, print them and share them with your students. Feel free to contact us with any questions!

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