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Hands-on STEM Learning Nooks where children build, experiment, and discover the curiosity-driven skills that define tomorrow's workforce.
The biggest skills we can give to children are curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity — the four C's we ignite every day at our Learning Nooks.
“MakersBox enables kids in low-resource settings to break away from rote learning”
MakersBox was founded in 2015 as a for-profit company, bringing hands-on STEM education to India's leading IB and CBSE schools. Our team became an integral part of building what India now knows as the Atal Tinkering Labs — from defining what a lab should look like to shaping its curriculum — as part of a Panel of Experts at NITI Aayog, Government of India.
In 2019, we made a deliberate pivot: we incorporated as a Section 8 Not-For-Profit Company. The children who needed us most weren’t in the schools that could pay for us. We’ve since run maker programmes as summer camps at partner schools, organised Delhi’s first Mini Maker Faire, and built our flagship Learning Nook in Jaitpur, South Delhi.
We believe the future belongs to curious, creative, collaborative minds. So every session at a MakersBox Nook is designed not to fill heads with facts, but to ignite the four Cs: Curiosity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Creativity — the skills no machine can replace.
99% of every rupee you give goes directly to the children. Our accountants, CAs, office, social media team, and technology team are all volunteers. Only our full-time and volunteer facilitators who run the Nook are paid — everything else is given.
We don’t just teach. We ignite curiosity.
We build critical thinkers, collaborators,
and creators — because those skills are unstoppable.
The job market is changing brutally fast. Routine thinkers are being replaced. The biggest skills we can give children aren’t just coding or math — they’re the ability to think boldly, ask hard questions, and build things that didn’t exist before. That’s what a Learning Nook session delivers, every single day.
A hands-on space where children build, discover, and develop the four Cs — Curiosity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Creativity.
Our Learning Nook is located in Jaitpur village, an urban village that falls within the Badarpur area of South Delhi. Children walk in from the community every day, pick up tools, and create. No rote memorisation — just hands-on building, guided by mentors who believe deeply in what these children can become.
Every Nook is embedded inside the community it serves — no commute, no barriers. Children walk in from the neighbourhood they already call home.
About usChildren learn by building circuits, designing models, running experiments. Our curriculum ignites Curiosity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Creativity — skills that last a lifetime.
Our Nooks₹250 covers one child's entire day — materials, mentor time, and a hot meal. 99% of every donation reaches the children. Our entire admin, tech and social media team are volunteers.
Verified figures, not estimates.
MakersBox is not a school for the privileged. Our ~150 children come from the hardest places — and they arrive every day, morning to evening, depending on when they are free from work or school, because they want to be here.
His school technically has a computer lab — but no teacher. It has an Atal Tinkering Lab — but students aren’t allowed to touch the equipment. Because someone thinks they might break it.
— A MakersBox donor, on one of our childrenTheir parents are street vendors, domestic workers, drivers — families at the very bottom of the economic pyramid. Some of our children attend schools you would not want to step inside. The infrastructure exists on paper; the learning never reaches the child.
At MakersBox, we give them the real thing: tools, technology, hands-on projects, and mentors who actually encourage them to ask questions. We don’t lock up the equipment because we’re afraid they’ll break it. We hand it to them and say — build something.
In 2026, traditional schooling and outdated computer courses are simply not enough. The children at our Nook are already experimenting with AI. They are building circuits. They are creating digital content and learning financial skills. This is a generation shift — and we are in the middle of it.
The ATL Problem: Thousands of government schools received Atal Tinkering Labs under a national programme. In too many of them, the equipment sits unused, locked away. Every child in India deserves access to real tools, real technology, and a mentor who says “yes, try it.” That’s what we do.
The skills we teach don’t just help one child — they shift the entire trajectory of a family. That is a generation change.
Choose an amount — or enter your own. 99% of every rupee goes directly to the children.
Real children. Real projects. Real impact — Jaitpur Learning Nook, South Delhi.
Photos from MakersBox Nook — Jaitpur
You bring the space and the community. We bring the rest.
Whether you run a co-working space, school, RWA, or community centre — if you believe children in your neighbourhood deserve 21st Century Skills, let’s build a Nook together. We bring the curriculum, tools, training, and network.
Project-based, curiosity-led, designed for limited-resource settings. Ready to deploy.
NGOs, funders, and educators ready to support your Nook from day one.
Equipment lists, vendor contacts, and space design guides.
We stay with you through setup, operations, and growth. Never alone.
Organisations that support our mission — from community partnerships to the physical space we operate from.
A grassroots education initiative providing quality learning to underprivileged children across India — a natural and committed partner in our shared mission.
apnipathshala.orgSproutBox CoWorking is the physical space MakersBox operates from. Our Learning Nook at Jaitpur runs because of this community — they believed in us from day one and gave us a home.
sproutbox.inCo-working space, school, NGO, or govt. body? If you believe every child deserves 21st Century Skills, let’s build something together.
care@makersboxfoundation.orgWe'll respond within 1–2 business days.
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