Legal status
BrainSTEM Without Borders is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization.
EIN available upon request to verifiers / partners.
Nonprofit STEM & robotics
BrainSTEM Without Borders
A Pennsylvania 501(c)(3) expanding access to STEM education and FIRST robotics— from Western PA classrooms and competition fields to international Robots without Borders outreach.
Legal organization name: BrainSTEM Without Borders
Mission
BrainSTEM Without Borders equips young people with STEM skills, mentors, and competition pathways so opportunity is not limited by zip code or border. We support FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech Challenge teams, mentor FRC 8393 The Giant Diencephalic BrainSTEM Robotics Team, and extend robotics and medical STEM outreach through Robots without Borders.
Associated with BrainSTEM Learning and the Robots without Borders outreach initiative.
About the organization
Location
BrainSTEM Without Borders
600 Spang Rd
Baden, PA 15005
United States
Focus
Youth STEM education, FIRST robotics mentoring and tournaments, and equity-focused robotics outreach locally and abroad.
Programs
Western PA FIRST LEGO League
Supporting roughly ~20 FLL tournaments across Western Pennsylvania so elementary and middle school teams can compete close to home.
Tournament operations for Western PA FLL are run separately at pafll.com.
FIRST Tech Challenge & FRC mentoring
Mentors 6 FTC teams and 1 FRC team: FRC 8393 The Giant Diencephalic BrainSTEM Robotics Team.
Robots without Borders
International and local equity outreach in STEM and medical STEM, including work connected to Belize, Haiti, Türkiye, and Tanzania, plus community programs that lower barriers to robotics and engineering education.
BrainSTEM Learning
Classes and regional partner activity historically associated with BrainSTEM Learning—CAD, 3D printing, robotics engineering, and more.
Impact highlights
- Championship FIRST Impact Award Finalist, 2026 (FRC 8393)
- Regional FIRST Impact awards
- Thousands of youth reached through tournaments, mentoring, and outreach
Read the team’s FIRST Impact Award essay: 2026 FIA essay (PDF).
Impact figures summarized at a high level from public FIRST materials; confirm any numeric claims before using them in formal grant or verification filings.
Donate
Donations support Western PA youth robotics, mentoring for FTC and FRC teams, and Robots without Borders outreach.
Online giving: use the Donate path on our associated site brainstemlearning.org while this domain’s donation flow is finalized.
Direct donations via this site are coming soon. For giving questions, use the contact details below once org email is activated with Google Workspace, or reach out through brainstemlearning.org.
Contact
BrainSTEM Without Borders
600 Spang Rd
Baden, PA 15005
Email coming soon at info@brainstemwithoutborders.org (mailbox to be activated with Google Workspace).
Until then, use the Contact path on brainstemlearning.org or mail the Baden address above.
Blue Alliance · 8393 BrainSTEM Learning Western PA FLL (pafll.com)