At KID Museum, we love robots. We’re almost as fond of them as Danielle Boyer, a young Indigenous (Ojibwe) robotics inventor and youth advocate. Growing up, Danielle was fascinated by all of the possibilities offered by robotics; unfortunately, she was frustrated as her family could not afford to enroll her in learning opportunities. At 18, Danielle founded STEAM Connection, an organization dedicated to tackling inequalities in technical education for Native American students. Her flagship invention is Every Kid Gets A Robot (EKGAR), an educational robotics kit that is given to Native American youth free of charge. Recently, Danielle has also created the SkoBot, a personalized, wearable, and interactive Indigenous language revitalization robot. Danielle’s motto is, “Together we can create a future that we want to see.”
