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Violet Purple offers hands-on activities in basic programming, advanced programming, 3D modeling, circuitry, robotics, rocketry, and model rocket building and launching. The program also includes opportunities for students to design and execute space experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) using Arduino-based ground units.
• Ages: 7–17 years old
Violet Purple runs classes in an experiential technology lab and Makerspace setting and also offers online and in-person classes for students in grades 2 through 12, including a year-long online supplement program for a global community. Some courses use hybrid learning with online instruction and STEM kits delivered to students’ homes. Courses combine science, technology, and programming concepts, use hands-on project-based learning, and incorporate ideas of storytelling and empathy in learning. The programming curriculum covers topics such as loops, decisions, functions, file systems, algorithms, and objects, and uses model rocketry to cover STEM concepts like gravity and pressure, aerodynamics, and Newton’s laws of motion. The program describes itself with the slogan, “Where Imagination is greater than Knowledge.”
Violet Purple’s staff includes Silicon Valley engineers, public school teachers, and entrepreneurs. The program started as a voluntary program in 2016 at a public school in Silicon Valley and has collaborated with school teachers. Its course was presented at the STEAM Symposium 2018 held in Long Beach, California. Students from the program presented their experiments at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2019 during the launch of the SpaceX CRS-17 mission, and some collaborators are startups, UC Berkeley alumni, and Silicon Valley big tech firms. The program’s stated mission is that it is very important to connect with leading thinkers in order to inspire students in becoming creative, innovative leaders.
One parent testimonial from an elementary school teacher in the Fremont Unified School District states that at Violet Purple, children enter the world of computer programming without being fixated to a screen, and that the lessons and workshops allowed her students’ imaginations to explore coding in an interactive and engaging way.
Last updated June 17, 2026.
• Ages: 7–17 years old
Violet Purple runs classes in an experiential technology lab and Makerspace setting and also offers online and in-person classes for students in grades 2 through 12, including a year-long online supplement program for a global community. Some courses use hybrid learning with online instruction and STEM kits delivered to students’ homes. Courses combine science, technology, and programming concepts, use hands-on project-based learning, and incorporate ideas of storytelling and empathy in learning. The programming curriculum covers topics such as loops, decisions, functions, file systems, algorithms, and objects, and uses model rocketry to cover STEM concepts like gravity and pressure, aerodynamics, and Newton’s laws of motion. The program describes itself with the slogan, “Where Imagination is greater than Knowledge.”
Violet Purple’s staff includes Silicon Valley engineers, public school teachers, and entrepreneurs. The program started as a voluntary program in 2016 at a public school in Silicon Valley and has collaborated with school teachers. Its course was presented at the STEAM Symposium 2018 held in Long Beach, California. Students from the program presented their experiments at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2019 during the launch of the SpaceX CRS-17 mission, and some collaborators are startups, UC Berkeley alumni, and Silicon Valley big tech firms. The program’s stated mission is that it is very important to connect with leading thinkers in order to inspire students in becoming creative, innovative leaders.
One parent testimonial from an elementary school teacher in the Fremont Unified School District states that at Violet Purple, children enter the world of computer programming without being fixated to a screen, and that the lessons and workshops allowed her students’ imaginations to explore coding in an interactive and engaging way.
Last updated June 17, 2026.
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