FUTURE U. provides educators with the tools they need to inspire their students to use creativity, collaboration, persistence and problem-solving to change the world.

Makers Making Change connects people with disabilities to volunteer makers to build assistive technologies.

In this media-rich lesson plan, students learn how critical thinking and problem solving are used in advanced manufacturing fields, then apply what they’ve learned in activities that are based on real-world scenarios.

Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

In this activity, students will learn about a real city that was predicted to run out of water and a potential solution using the process of desalination.

On the first leg of our road trip, we’re exploring the history of engines and how they work, with a little help from Car Talk’s Ray Magliozzi.

NASA’s endangered Constellation space program serves as the backdrop for this activity.

How can additive manufacturing expand the horizons of human exploration?

Here’s a big idea: What if we could fly to space like we fly around the world? That’s not science fiction – that’s the reality of the Space Shuttle Program!

Try your hand at building specific patterns, or explore how blocks can be used to make many different shapes in this bioengineering game.