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.

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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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

Superhero Community Team Up: Howard and Carnegie Mellon Universities and Toyz Electronics

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. 

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.

FEATURED IN

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TOYZSTEAM TESTIMONIALS

5/5
"You have a lot of territory covered with all of this. And I’m actually glad to see METALS involved in terms of evaluating, to see are you accomplishing your learning objectives. So, some of that entertainment you picked up from some of our ETC students in the past, now you’re broadening that. So, I just look forward to seeing where all this work leads."
Mike Christel
Teaching Professor, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University

5/5
"A lot of the conversations that we’ve had with Damola and Wole and Dr. Victoria Mattingly have to do with their democratization of access to technology and creating. Because in the nonprofit sector, we know that as we’re meeting today’s needs, we also have to be thinking about job creation for tomorrow. So, creating an equitable environment for that is extremely important"
Emily Francis
Program Manager At Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership
5/5
"These kinds of tools and ideas and innovations most important thing is to spread the word. Get people aware of it. Be able to see the practicality and the possibilities presented. draw those people who are going to be the early adopters the people who really want to get engaged in it and spend the time with it upfront to to build the early successes, and then it grows from there."
Stuart Blacklaw
Provost And Executive Vice President At The Community College Of Allegheny County

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DONATE TO TOYZSTEAM

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.

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