Please note, this post is sponsored by CreationCrate.com. All opinions expressed are my own. Thank you.
If you’ve had the opportunity to scout out many STEM-based subscription boxes online you will have noticed one glaring similarity. Most of these subscriptions are geared towards younger children. But what about STEM-focused activities for tweens and teens? The market until recently has been pretty abysmal.
Which was why I’m again excited to have been asked to review another subscriptions box from Creation Crate, a STEM-based service geared towards kids aged 12 and up. This time the Bluetooth Boombox kit.
What’s the service all about
Creation Crate is geared towards bringing experiential learning to tech-education methods for students and educators alike, in a learning curriculum geared towards helping students learn the basics of engineering, robotics, and computer programing strategies.
Creation Crate includes monthly boxed crates that contain both the hardware of electronics and the programming for each specific project. Like with many other services, because of the programming required, you will also need a computer or laptop to download and use the Arduino software, the software that runs each programming grid. Projects are sent on a relatively simple start and as time goes on students will receive harder boxes as their subscriptions continue.
Each box includes an instruction pamphlet to help guide you through the initial hardware setup, programming instruction, common errors suggestions, and exercises to utilize your finished programming project. You’re also given the URL to their online project support page, extra parts for your kit, and diagrams and instructions for downloading the software for each kit.
Creation Crate Bluetooth Boombox Kit Review
The Creation Crate curriculum kit that we received was Bluetooth Boombox! Which is such a fun project because, in the end, you have speakers that you can play music from your phone, tablet, pc, or other applicable devices. What I liked most about this kit was that all of the necessary components were sent in was the boombox. That allowed for all of the assembled components to fit back neatly into.
Putting this kit together was as simple following the online site curriculum guide, and then simply placing all the jumper wires and terminal blocks together. Which went rather quickly as within minutes its simple to follow the enclosed instructions, as well as the coordinating YouTube videos online, cut out the coordinating sections (using an Exacto knife), and to then attach the components.
Once all of the pieces were assembled correctly, we connected the boombox to various devices, and, of course, the music started playing from the boombox.
This kit was simple to put together, would be great for middle school-aged students and homeschoolers alike, and would also make an awesome summer break project too.
Creation Crate is a great project to keep your children and students learning throughout the warm weather season in new ways that help perpetuate cognitive thought, problem-solving strategies, give insight into consumer electronic creation, and learn about the applied science of sound engineering.
The Creation Crate subscription box is a wonderful gift or project for an older child or student wanting to learn more about electrical engineering and electronics as well. More sophisticated than something like Snap Circuits and Vex kits, learning with these kits will help lay a foundation for future study.
If you have a budding Arduino or electronics master in your house, try Creation Crate to encourage your kids’ interests. If your kiddo is a beginner, come back to this service once they have a new other vex kits under their belt first!
With costs starting at $30.00 each month to teaching kits starting at $200.00 for numerous projects, there’s an affordable price point for everyone on your list! So be sure to check this service out as with Creation Crate projects, you’re putting together a real project – not theory, but an actual working lamp! And I think that’s pretty great!
Friends, now I want to ask, have you tried Creation Crate? If so, please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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