Teachers
Run a maker club at your school
You don't need an expensive lab. We give you the curriculum, step-by-step experiment guides and other teachers to learn alongside.
Don’t just learn it. Build it.
Short online lessons, real kits and mentors. Courses in robotics, coding and clean energy for young Africans.
Supported by these organisations
Five tracks, each ending in something you built.
Every track pairs short online lessons with a physical project. You finish with a working prototype, not just a quiz score.
01 — Robotics & IoT
Build a rover that avoids obstacles
6 weeks · kit included
02 — Clean Energy
Wire a small solar power system
4 weeks · outdoor field project
03 — Software & AI
Machine learning for farming
8 weeks · Python and real farm data
04 — Fabrication
Design and print your own parts
5 weeks · CAD and 3D printing
05 — Aerospace
Send sensor data from a weather balloon
4 weeks · live weather data
Learn it online.
Build it on a real bench.
- 1
Learn the idea
Short video lessons and readings, with quick checks along the way. It all works on a phone.
- 2
Build it
Put it together with a kit at school, or in the browser-based Maker Lab if you don't have the parts yet.
- 3
Get it reviewed
Submit your project and a mentor reviews it. Finish the course and you get a certificate anyone can verify online.
- Electronics & robotics
- Breadboards, Arduino, sensors, motors
- Clean energy
- Solar circuits, batteries, irrigation monitors
- Applied computing
- Python, data, small machine-learning models
Where the programme is today
120,000+
students reached
More than half are young women.
2.5M
hours of hands-on lab work
Time spent building circuits, solar kits and software.
3,400+
teachers trained
Running maker clubs in their own schools.
22
African countries
With active chapters and partner schools.
Not a student? There's still a place for you.
Most of what we do depends on teachers, volunteers and partners. Here's how people help.
Mentors
Give an hour to a young engineer
Review student projects, host office hours or teach a guest session. Engineers, scientists and developers all welcome.
Organisations
Fund kits, labs and hackathons
Sponsor lab kits for a school, a regional student hackathon or a run of community workshops.
Who we are
Leer is the learning platform from STEMi Makers Africa, a non-profit that teaches young Africans to solve problems with science and engineering. We write the curriculum, put maker kits into schools and match students with mentors.
The projects are local on purpose: water monitors, solar chargers, farm sensors. Students learn faster when the thing they're building matters to the people around them.
Pick one course.
Build one thing.
Creating an account is free, and you work through each course at your own pace.