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Support Game Maker Academy

Help Us Promote STEM Education

Your support directly provides the resources we need to fulfill our mission of providing free and low cost STEM enrichment opportunities to youth and teens in the metropolitan Chicago region. With your generous help, we can continue to facilitate informal learning opportunities at museums, libraries, after school programs, community centers, and other informal learning spaces. Please consider contributing in any manner you can.


Financial Contributions

Your financial contributions help us to do more with less. With your generous financial support, we can provide young people with the most effective tools and learning resources available, thereby keeping our costs, and the costs to our host facilities, at an absolute minimum.

Please consider making an online donation by clicking the Donate button on the right.

Donate Your Used Computers and Computing Devices

Please consider donating your used laptop computers and peripheral devices, USB drives, external or portable hard drives, and other recyclible hardware, including projectors and surge protectors. We install the open source Ubuntu operating system on every donated laptop, together with Sun Microsystem's Open Office suite, and a variety of free and open source learning technologies such as those used in our programs.

Your donations give us the portability to offer programs in any environment without regard to the hardware needs of the hosting facility. To donate your unwanted hardware to Game Maker Academy, please contact us at donations@gamemakeracademy.org.

When disposing of desktop computers, monitors, keyboards and printers, please consider making a donation to the nonprofit FreeGeek organization.




Our Wish List

Used laptop computers
Used LCD projectors
Surge protectors
CD RW stacks
USB Drives
Used/Vintage Game Consoles
Used Controllers
Game Cartridges/Discs