Combining Gaming + STEM + Art + Maker + Entrepreneurship
To Get Students College Prepared And Career Ready
Our Afro-futuristic Metaverse in an integrated App empowers diverse and disadvantaged students to become the Superhero versions of themselves and get to select Universities like Carnegie Mellon and MIT or pathway to sustainable careers in creative, hardware, software, manufacturing, or entrepreneurship.
TOYZSTEAM DEVELOPED WITH CARNEGIE MELLON
TOYZSTEAM is Carnegie Mellon Developed, MIT Validated, and NSF Researched by Black multi-generational engineers.
Our Superhero Rap concept teaches students to be STEAM superheroes and entrepreneurs. It infuses cultural relevance, DEI, SEL, storytelling, and technical and creative skills.
At 12 Damola Idowu was a poet who loved writing love letters and dreamt of being a mechanical engineer after watching a show Knight Rider about an Autonomous vehicle with an AI named KITT. At 15 his dream became true taking college classes at Syracuse during summer college. At 16 he will enroll at Syracuse full-time to study mechanical engineering and economics. At 18 he will win an engineering competition at Howard University.
His son Wole Idowu will be inspired and will come up with his own inventions that were sustainable and accessible for billions of people in the world. He will present this idea at 15 on top business television network CNBC in a documentary with fabled Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel. 20 Under 20 transforming tomorrow was the title and he will choose to enroll at Carnegie Mellon University at 15 to pursue electrical and computer engineering and learn to build his world changing technology.
Our Afro-futuristic Metaverse in an integrated App empowers diverse and disadvantaged students to become the Superhero versions of themselves and get to select Universities like Carnegie Mellon and MIT or pathway to sustainable careers in creative, hardware, software, manufacturing, or entrepreneurship.
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LEARN ABOUT VARIOUS INDUSTRIES IN DAH-VARSITY
WE USE AI TO ENHANCE USER EXPERIENCE
COMMUNITY IMPACT
4000+ students since 2014
Meet Timothy
Timothy is an African-American student who has been in our program since he was 10 years old. He came with a group of parents and students to CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center. Because of the Toyz Electronics program, he has a passion for STEM and he took Calculus in High School before he graduated. He enrolled at Carnegie Mellon this Fall and is in BNY Mellon’s Freshman Jump Start Program
SUPERHERO COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
From our I-Corps Research, a collaboration was created between Carnegie Mellon University and Howard University to democratize creative technology education for Historical Black Colleges and Universities. This is a model for other such collaborations. Unity Technologies is supporting the effort. Toyz Electronics is also co-teaching Howard University Students programing for game development for Windows mixed reality, GitHub implimentation in production workflow and Unity.
LIFE-LONG LEARNERS K-WORKFORCE
Elementary School
Workshop with BNY Mellon, Girl Scouts, Red Chair Pittsburgh, Women in TechnologyStudents learn how to express themselves and communicate their ideas. They get exposed to potential careers in STEAM industries. They get inspired to learn and are engaged.
Middle School
News coverage of our Workshop. Middle School students begin to ideate and create. They begin to apply themselves with fundamental building blocks for future careers in STEAM.
High School
High School Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.Students are trained on utilizing creativity tools in an application development environment. They learn hands on and get exposed to a variety of skills in several industries.Â
College
College Student Training via a Hackathon at Carnegie Mellon UniversityWe use Project Based Learning to train Students on industry standard tools. Our training provides pathways for proficiency and certification.
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Via New Sun Rising #TOYZSTEAM Dah-Varsity Scholars is a fiscally sponsored program focused on increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) creator industry.