IBM Academic Activity Kits
Everything you need for a volunteer activity
IBM’s Activity Kits are designed around specific opportunities – helping not-for-profit organizations understand their technology needs, sharing the fun of math and science with school children, and more. Each kit provides supporting materials such as presentations or educational modules, to prepare and equip volunteers to assist schools or community agencies.
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Agile Practices for Students
Introduce Agile practices to students through fun, hands-on activities.
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Basics of Marketing
Conduct a half-day workshop to introduce the fundamentals of marketing.
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Clean Water Difference
Help students explore the tradeoffs faced in decisions affecting watersheds.
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Cyber-bullying
Explore the dangers and signs of cyber-bullying with parents or teachers.
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Design Thinking for Students
Raise awareness of the design thinking framework as a problem solving device.
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Disaster Volunteering
Learn to prepare for disasters and about disaster volunteering.
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Discover Your Roots
Introduce the DNA science behind the TheGenographic Project.
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Driving on Sunshine
Students explore engineering by designing and making a solar-powered model car.
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Eat Your Science
Lead students in an experiment that explores chemistry while making ice cream.
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Engineering Everything
Introduce engineering's impact on our lives, and promote technical careers.
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Explore Careers in Engineering
Transforming today's ideas into tomorrow's realities.
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Feet of Engineering
Introduce engineering concepts to students with an activity in shoe design.
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Get The Job: On Paper, In Person
Help sharpen job candidates' resume-writing and interview skills.
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Get The Job: Research & Prepare
Introduce job-seekers to the fundamentals of searching for a job.
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Get Your Head in the Cloud
Introduce kids to Cloud computing and how we all use it.
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Hands on STEM (aka DiscoverE)
Introducing and reinforcing the importance of STEM education and careers.
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Hello, Watson
Introduce IBM's Jeopardy! champion computer and the technology behind it.
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Help Kids Go Green
Help students learn how we can all reduce, re-use and recycle garbage.
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Internet Fundamentals
Help adults or students learn how to use the Internet.
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Internet of Me
Help raise cyber security awareness among students aged 12-15.
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Internet Safety Coaching
Make a presentation to adults about helping children stay safe while online.
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Introduce Teacher Advisor
Help early-grade math teachers with IBM's free Watson-powered resource.
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Introduction to Teen Leadership
Introduce teens to leadership of all situations
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Kids TryScience Extravaganza 1
Lead a series of engaging, hands-on experiments designed for children ages 7-8.
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Kids TryScience Extravaganza 2
Lead a series of engaging, hands-on experiments designed for children ages 8-9.
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Kids TryScience Extravaganza 3
Lead a series of engaging, hands-on experiments designed for children ages 9-10.
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Marble Ramp
Discuss engineering with students, and then lead a fun experiment that builds teamwork.
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Math Games for Kids
Make mathematics fun with this series of games for preschool or primary school children.
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Measuring Success with Outcomes
Help not-for-profit organizations learn to assess their community impact.
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Medical Minecraft
Intersecting games with Cognitive Computing.
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Mind Controllable Hungry Hippos
Build your own real brainwave-powered hippo game.
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Mission: Innovation
Inspire students to consider how technology can make our world better.
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Moving Atoms
Get students involved in understanding the power of atoms.
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Patent Project
Help students learn the value of ideas and how the patent process works.
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Programming Enigma
Learning cryptography with the Enigma, Java and Arduino.
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Project Management Primer
Introduce not-for-profits to project management basics.
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Promote Computer Science
Introduce educators to high-school curriculum resources.
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Puppy Palace Project
Introduce project management principles though an activity to build a paper dog house.
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Puzzles Galore
Introduce engineering concepts to kids by leading a fun activity with jigsaw puzzles.
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Recycling Machine
A challenging activity helps students understand engineering and imaginative problem-solving.
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Robotics for Kids
A guide to FIRST(R) Robotics.
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Small Business Boost
Help promote the SME Toolkit - a free resource for small and growing businesses.
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Smaller than Small
Introduce nanotechnology concepts and applications to students.
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Student Entrepreneurs
Inspire students' entrepreneurial spirit by demonstrating how ideas become businesses.
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TJBot
An open source project to connect to Watson services in a fun way.
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Talking Trivia
Students can enjoy a hands-on introduction to creating an iOS mobile app using Swift.
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Teaching Respect
Help teens to appreciate the importance of differences among people.
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Technology Planning Primer
Introduce not-for-profits to the basics of technology planning.
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Teen Leadership Full Day
Empower teens to become leaders
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Toy Box Club
Introduce kids to programming by designing video games online.
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TryScience Toolkit
Present fun science activities using experiments from TryScience.org.
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Walking On A Cloud
This kit is intended to provide an introduction to Cloud-based programming with IBM Bluemix.
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Website Startup
Help small organizations learn how to plan their first website.
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Website Visioning
Experienced volunteers can help not-for-profit organizations improve their online presence.
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What Are You Working On?
Introduce students to the fascinating work being done by engineers around the world.
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World Community Grid
Join and promote a project devoted to humanitarian research.
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