Creating Tomorrow’s Innovators Today: our Spring/Summer 2026 newsletter shares the latest Community Bots updates, including our new Board of Directors and recent program highlights.

We’re thrilled to announce two new partner programs — Growing Up Green Charter School, our second NYC school, and the Fundación Pies Descalzos’ (FPD) Nuevo Bosque School in Barranquilla, Colombia. FPD was established by Grammy-winning Colombian singer, songwriter, and producer Shakira, and will be our third partner program in Colombia.

The Mission International Rescue Charities School for Girls (Fundación MIR School) in La Romana, Dominican Republic, has been inspiring girls to pursue STEM-robotics since 2018, when The Community Bots hosted its first training program there.

The students from the Bronx Charter School for the Arts were invited to Google NYC headquarters to showcase their robotics skills with the Googlers, meet with their female Google mentors, and tour the campus.

Our intrepid co-founder, Jack Cooley, is our new Executive Director. Read about our successful in-person programs in Colombia, New York City, and Nicaragua this past summer.

Thanks to your generous support, we were able to get back on the road this summer and do what we do best — provide training and equipment in STEM-robotics for girls and their teachers in underserved communities.

Powered by upcycled Equipment Donation that’s facilitated by the Community Bots team, we build the program with teachers and create a weeklong hands-on experience with the students while designing, building, programming robots, and exploring the lives of real role models women in the STEM field.

Partnering with the US Embassy Madrid, the Fundación Secretariado Gitano, and the mayor’s office, we trained 12 teachers for one week and then ran our six-day STEM-robotics program for 30 girls, many from the Gitano (Roma) community as well as six girls from Ceuta, the Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa.