About
JackBord-the ultimate solution for teaching and learning STEM
JackBord provides authentic, hands on, real world experiences to ignite young learners imaginations and innate curiosity and creativity in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, Electronics, Graphics, sought by educators world wide. We are on a mission to help young learners of all abilities into the exciting world of STEM.
JackBord's "out of the box" extensive suite of long life, robust, multifunctional electrical devices, sensors, servos, construction materials, software and learning materials require no prior knowledge to use.
Because Jack is dyslexic he needed to make devices difficult to break and "brick", and learning materials easy for learners of all abilities to use.
There is a JackBord for everyone, from the JackBord Basic, the Virtual JackBord to the JackBord Pro, with its powerful processors, numerous inbuilt sensors and remote capability.
Users can add external sensors built on JackBord's unique Universal Sensor Interface, pre built science and robotic kits using our own metal JacKano (or make up their own) and learn coding, data logging and analytics with JackBord's own Octagon programme-an easy segue to other programmes such as Python.
Whilst the user guides and numerous activities are designed for students of all abilities to learn at their own pace and place -and for educators to guide them whilst aligning to curriculum-there are structured activities and projects at various levels to guide teachers and users on their journey.
We encourage JackBorders to actively participate in the JackBord eco system by providing feedback for improvement and sharing their learnings so that we can curate and share with other JackBorders. We're all on this continuous learning journey together. That's STEM!
The possibilities are in the hands and minds of users.
Back Story
Jack Penman is a gifted educator and creative electronics engineer and recently TED Talks presenter who brings a rare and innovative vision to the challenge of teaching young and diverse minds.
His unique brain distills complexity into simple solutions. Jack’s difficulties and frustrations accessing the education that both interested him and suited his learning style has driven him to address the many problems facing all learners, particularly the neuro diverse and minority groups.
Drawing upon his innate curiosity, considerable knowledge, different way of thinking, and an ability to inspire others, Jack -with students and teacher colleagues- has created the JackBord -a system that is now is transforming the lives of many students of all abilities and backgrounds.
JackBord Trust
Jack established the JackBord Trust to encourage more students of all learning abilities and backgrounds to take up STEM education, to help them realise their potential through problem solving, creating solutions, collaboration and learning new skills in order to contribute meaningfully and confidently in our ever changing world, and to broaden their career opportunities .
Any donations, grants and dividends received will be applied to fulfilling its purpose, helping students in need and to breaking down barriers to STEM learning.
As the Trust is a charity incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957, 24 May 2019. all donations are tax deducible.
Find out more about the trust and how to make donations at JackBord Trust
Purpose (the why)
We open a world of opportunity for curious young minds for careers in science, technology, engineering and more…..
Mission (the how)
To remove the barriers to teaching and learning STE(A)M subjects for young learners of ALL abilities and backgrounds
Vision
The enjoyment of learning
"Let’s deliver them a path that can take them to a variety of destinations, limited only by their imaginations.” Jack Penman, Inventor and founder