Purpose-driven STEAM Education for a brighter future
Inspire creative problem-solvers, from first code to career-ready skills.
Solutions for every learning stage
Engage students with hands-on experiences that build critical thinking, collaboration, and the confidence to tackle tomorrow's challenges.
Flexible Solutions for Different Learning Environments
Purpose-driven learning helps students build tech skills and apply them to real-world challenges.
Classrooms
Enhance curriculum with hands-on STEAM learning with tools that support real-world problem solving, collaboration, and cross-curricular connections.
Curriculum-aligned and standards-based
Supports diverse learners and pacing
Real-world projects with clear outcomes
Try this! Code a home that saves energy with smart lights and temperature using the Climate Action Kit and micro:bit.
Expanded Learning
Boost engagement and enrichment with plug-and-play tech and makerspace tools that spark creativity, collaboration, and real world learning.
Easy setup, no tech expertise needed
Ideal for clubs and camps
Encourages creativity and teamwork
Try this! Create a step counter with CHARGE for micro:bit and explore data, health, and movement through coding.
Learning Commons
Create an innovation hub with beginner-friendly coding kits and cutting-edge MakerSpace tools for student-led projects and independent learning.
Open-ended and reusable materials
Promotes informal peer learning
Makes cutting-edge tech accessible
Try this! Load a MakeCode Arcade game onto CodeCTRL, then explore and tweak the code to see how it works.
CTE Labs
Support career pathways with renewable energy and hydroponics kits, coding systems, and real fabrication tools like laser cutters and 3D printers.
Aligned to future-ready careers
Combines tech and engineering
Real tools, authentic outcomes
Try this! Solder red, yellow, and green LEDs to a smart module, then add it to your coding project as a traffic light.
Makerspaces
Empower students to invent, prototype, and build using design thinking and cutting-edge tools. Make parts that extend coding projects, or make something new from scratch.
Integrates design thinking and fabrication
Complements coding and workforce kits
Real tools, real-world applications
Try This! Laser cut a guitar shape to make a micro:bit powered musical instrument.
Empowering today's learners for tomorrow's careers
Bridging the EdTech Impact Gap
The Forward Advantage
Technology skills are just the start. Empower students to think critically, act with empathy, and apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems through meaningful and relevant learning experiences.
Your partner for STEAM education.
Everything schools and districts need to build future-ready skills by connecting learning to real-world challenges
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Latest Blogs
MakeCode for micro:bit 2025 Updates
A Big Win for Accessibility, AI Education, and Forward Education Tools The 2025 update to MakeCode for micro:bit brings powerful...
CSTA 2025 Recap: Real-World Learning, Big Energy & Unforgettable Moments
Forward Education lit up CSTA 2025 with hands-on STEAM tools, bite-sized PD, and coding that connects to the real world....
Tonya Coats on Equity in Computer Science Education
In a digital-first world, equitable access to computer science (CS) is essential. Tonya Coats shares how we can close opportunity...
