Back to School: Young Engineers

1950s inspired art depicting a classroom with wooden desks. Adabot the light blue robot opened a book that contains a light blue holographic Adafruit star logo. Ruby the red LED, Gus the green LED, and Billie the blue LED, Minerva the purple owl, and Hans the beige 555 timer IC are sitting at separate desks in the background

It’s #BacktoSchool season, which means the caretakers out there probably have a few new to-dos on their lists. Set the young engineer in your life up for success this coming school year with a kit they can work on after school to further expand their mind. Or help them make their backpack glow up! We’ve got books for the young engineers who favor reading, and lunch boxes that we’ve found are fantastic for storing lunch… and treasures!

Build & Play

Adafruit Joy Bonnet for Raspberry Pi
$14.95
Assembled MintyBoost kit in mint tin with top open, charging an iPhone.
MintyBoost Kit
$19.50
Angled assembled TV-B-Gone kit in dramatic lighting.
TV-B-Gone Kit
$19.50
Bristlebot - 4 pack
$19.95
Top view of solar bug kit contents.
Solar Bug Kit 2.0 from Brown Dog Gadgets - 4 Pack
$24.95
Person watering sprouts with a Circuitry water sensor attached
4-H Grow Your Own Clovers Kit with Circuit Playground Express
$39.95
Stylized graphic with US dollar signs and "Adafruit Gift Certificate" in filigree font.
$50 Gift certificate
$50.00
Adafruit PyGamer Starter Kit with PCB, enclosure, buttons, and storage bag
Adafruit PyGamer Starter Kit
$59.95
Hand squeezing a water bottle into a potted plant with metal nail stuck into soil. Nail connects to Circuit Playground lit up green.
Circuit Playground Express Soil Sensor Mini Kit
$35.00
A collection of electronic parts included in kit.
CircuitPython Starter Kit with Adafruit Itsy Bitsy M4
$24.95
Adafruit Metro 328 Starter Pack showing kit contents, with boards, PCBs, wires and power supplies
Adafruit Metro 328 Starter Pack
$44.95
Metal-body robot with collection of loose components.
Parallax BOE-Bot Robotics Shield Kit for Arduino
$189.95
Assembled snap circuits project with many parts connected together
Snap Circuits® Jr. 100 Experiments
$29.95
Top down view of a Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express with a circular board connected.
Adafruit CRICKIT for Circuit Playground Express
$29.95
Angled shot of a Adafruit CRICKIT for micro:bit connected to a black squared board.
Adafruit CRICKIT for micro:bit
$29.95

Books

Front cover of Digi-Key Innovation Handbook.
Digi-Key Innovation Handbook
$5.95
Front cover of technical book: "Programming the Pico. Learn Coding and Electronics with the Raspberry Pi Pico." Cover art is an angled photograph of a long green rectangular microcontroller assembled into a half-size breadboard.
Programming the Pico: Learn Coding & Electronics w/ the Pico
$9.95
Angled shot of black tome Pocket Ref - 4th Edition - by Thomas J. Glover.
Pocket Ref - 4th Edition - by Thomas J. Glover
$12.95
Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket book along with a collection of electronic parts included in kit.
Getting Started with Trinket Book + NeoPixel Goggles Pack
$49.95
Top view of technical book, "Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming".
Python for Kids - A Playful Introduction to Programming
$34.95
Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express book along with a collection of electronic parts included in kit.
Getting Started with Circuit Playground Express Book Bundle
$54.95
Front cover of "Ladyada's Coloring Book R is for Robots" A friendly robot, AdaBot, holds a blue crayon and a pink crayon.
Ladyada's Coloring book - "R is for Robots"
$9.95
Angled shot of electronics notebook.
Electronics Notebook from Monk Makes
$14.95
Bots! by Kathy Ceceri - Book and Parts Bundle showing many components, motors, LEDs, and more
Bots! by Kathy Ceceri - Book and Parts Bundle
$49.95
Angled shot of loose booklet pages "Love To Code: Volume 1 Add-on Booklet Kit - Microsoft MakeCode Edition"
Love To Code: Volume 1 Add-on Booklet Kit
$4.95
Front cover of Toolshed Coloring Book showing hundreds of outline-drawn tools
Toolshed Coloring Book
$14.95

Things That Glow

5 Pack of RFID/NFC Nail Stickers
RFID/NFC Nail Stickers - 5 Pack with White LEDs
$8.50
Kit contents for Adafruit Beginner LED Sewing Kit
Adafruit Beginner LED Sewing Kit
$13.95
A collection of electronic parts included in the starters pack.
Adafruit Gemma Sequin Starter Pack
$17.95
Coil of lit EL wire in pink
EL wire starter pack - Pink 2.5 meter (8.2 ft)
$19.95
Kit shot of unlit aqua EL tape, inverter, and batteries.
Electroluminescent (EL) Tape/Strip Starter Pack - 100cm - Aqua
$19.95
Lit square of light blue EL sheet
Electroluminescent (EL) Panel Starter Pack - 10cm x 10cm White
$24.95
Adafruit LED Glasses Front Panel - 116 RGB LEDs with I2C Driver
$24.95
Trinket M0 Powered NeoPixel Goggle Kit Pack
$39.95
Sheet of 25 Breadboard-friendly RGB Smart NeoPixels
Breadboard-friendly RGB Smart NeoPixel - Sheet of 25
$39.95
A collection of electronic parts included in kit.
FLORA GPS Starter Pack
$89.95
Space Shuttle Discovery Solder Kit by Phyx
$12.50
Close crop of PCB badge of a cartoon space girl on a black t-shirt worn by a white person.
Space Girl Badge Soldering Kit by Maker Queen
$9.95
Close crop of PCB badge of a cartoon space girl on a black t-shirt worn by a white person.
Biology Girl Badge Soldering Kit by Elkei Education
$9.95
DIY Light Up Blinky Bow Ties Kit - 10 Pack
$19.95

Swag

Animated green and purple Cricket sticker displaying the front profile and the side profile of the Cricket.
Crickit Sticker Sheet
$0.50
"Make Robot Friend" Jigsaw Puzzle
Make Robot Friend Jigsaw Puzzle
$0.95
Holographic sticker with friendly snake wearing a space-helmet. Text says "Circuit Python Space Explorers"
CircuitPython Space Explorers Sticker
$0.95
Sticker showing a purple and pink animated python
Blinka the CircuitPython Sticker
$1.25
Circular sticker with an image of a television crossed out with red line. Mounted on white paper with barcode
TV-B-Gone - Sticker!
$1.50
Circular sticker of a bicycle wheel in black and grey with a wrench turning the central nut, over a white background. Mounted on white paper with barcode.
Bike repair - Sticker!
$1.50
Circular sticker with brown catapult mid-fling, over an abstracted blue sky and green grass background. Sticker is trimmed in grey and mounted on white paper with barcode.
Catapult - Sticker!
$1.50
Angled shot of an enamel pin resembling a raspberry
Raspberry Pi Enamel Pin
$2.50
Round solar panel next to lapel pin and quarter
Round Solar Panel Skill Badge - 5V / 40mA
$2.95
Embroidered patch in the shape of the raspberry pi logo, in red with green leaves on top, outlined in black. Shown next to quarter for scale.
Raspberry Pi - Skill badge, iron-on patch
$3.95
Friendly robot AdaBot Lunch Box
AdaBot LunchBox
$9.95
Stack of Circuit Patterns Trading Cards from Arachnid Labs.
Circuit Patterns Trading Cards from Arachnid Labs
$16.95