About StarStack
Make it real
We believe everyone deserves to be exposed to the wonders of STEAM, and to have the chance to turn their ideas into real things.
Our vision
Make it real
We believe everyone deserves to be exposed to the wonders of STEAM, and to have the chance to turn their ideas into real things.
Our goal isn’t only to teach. It’s to give people the skills to design and make whatever they can picture — and the confidence that comes from holding something they invented.
Origin
How we started
StarStack began in a college dorm room at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2024.
We kept running into the same thing: 3D printers in schools that nobody knew how to use, students who wanted to learn design with nobody to teach them, and programs that cost more than a school could justify. The tools were there. The path in wasn’t.
So we built it — a printer you learn from as you assemble it, and lessons that teach a student directly, without needing an expert in the room.
Principles
What we believe
Open beats closed.
Off-the-shelf parts, common hardware, free software, no lock-in.
Low barriers matter more than advanced features.
The best program is the one a school can actually afford and a teacher can actually run.
Teach the real thing.
Professional tools, not simplified imitations, so the skills go somewhere.
Making is the lesson.
Students learn by designing and printing objects they care about, not by watching.
Today
Where we are now
We’ve tested with more than fifty students, run two full weeks of summer camp, and are finishing pre-production units of the S1. We’re a US startup, and we’d like to hear from you.