13.69° N · 89.23° W
San Salvador · El Salvador
Building a future without limits
Students aged 4 to 22, teachers, professionals and companies learn by building and programming real machines.
In a world where the only constant is change, we dare to reimagine education.
We envision an El Salvador where every child and young person has the tools to become an innovative leader, and where technology is not just a tool: it is a means to transform realities.
We are more than an academy. We are catalysts for change, pioneers of the educational revolution and architects of the future. We believe in education as a driver of change and in the potential of every student.
We don't follow the future. We create it.
Six programs.
One continuous path.
A single talent pipeline, from age 4 to the workforce: students, teachers, schools, professionals and companies.
Kids and teens · Ages 4 to 22Robotics Club
The first club of its kind in the country. Six progressive levels, from Early Robotics to R&D+i.
Youth and university studentsAI Club · AI Lab
Machine learning, data science, computer vision and ethical AI.
K-12 schoolsSTEAMXperience360
A K-12 SaaS ecosystem: curriculum, content, analytics and credentials in one platform.
TeachersSTEAM4Teachers
A 160-hour certification to lead interdisciplinary innovation in the classroom.
ProfessionalsProfessional Education
Industry certifications and reskilling in AI, IoT, data and Industry 4.0.
CompaniesSTEAM Industry
Industrial upskilling in AI, IoT, robotics and Industry 4.0, with Siemens and SARA Robotics.
From the first motor to published research
Six levels built on a growth mindset. Each one adds digital and human skills, and the last one leads to competing and publishing.
- 01
Early Robotics
Motor skills, language, logic and math.
- 02
Junior
Computational thinking, reasoning and geometry.
- 03
Basic
Natural phenomena and measuring physical variables.
- 04
Intermediate
Programming, kinematics and Boolean logic.
- 05
Advanced 1 & 2
Robot design, AI, IoT and app development.
- 06
R&D+i
Research, competitions and publications.
World silver with a robot that thinks
Armando Guevara, Fernando Chávez and Irene López won the silver medal at the World Robot Olympiad 2024 in İzmir, Türkiye (Future Innovators, Junior) with Eco Buddy: a robotic platform that sorts waste using computer vision, edge AI and IoT.
SilverWRO 2024 · 85+ countries · 15,000+ students
2ndBest of the Americas
95.45%Eco Buddy classification accuracy
The project became a peer-reviewed paper presented at the 9th RICE conference in India in 2024: at 13, they were already published co-authors. That same year the team won the national championship.
The only academy in the country validated on both world stages
World Robot Olympiad 2024
Silver medal in İzmir, Türkiye, with Team Green Force. National champions the same year.
AI for Good Global Summit 2026
Selected for the Grand Finale of the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge, organized by the UN's ITU in Geneva.
IEEE CONESCAPAN 2026
A milestone: a 13-year-old researcher presented his own paper at the IEEE congress in Costa Rica, alongside two more papers by our students.
Not a course. A full innovation stack.
Our AI tutor, tracking app, programming studio and SaaS platform work as one connected system.
ASTRA
Socratic AI tutor
Personalized questioning, feedback and critical-thinking guidance. It doesn't hand out answers: it teaches how to think.
STEAMConnect
Tracking app
Projects, badges, competencies and each student's growth over time.
STEAMBlocks Studio
Programming IDE
A coding environment for robotics, automation and creative computing.
STEAMXperience360
K-12 SaaS ecosystem
Curriculum, content, analytics and credentials in one platform.
Taught by the people who publish the research
Very few academies in the region have an institutional Scopus profile. In 2025, STEAM Robotics Academy ranked fifth in El Salvador for indexed scientific output, ahead of several universities.
MIT
Dr. Manuel Cardona
CEO and co-founder · El Salvador's first PhD in Robotics · MIT graduate · Strategic advisor to ANIA
Scientific outputScopus · 2026
- Academy publicationsInstitutional Scopus profile
- 17
- National rank for 2025 outputAmong Salvadoran universities and research centers
- 5th
- Director's publicationsScopus-indexed · No. 1 in the country
- +180
- Edited booksSpringer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis
- 9
- Invited lecturesAmericas, Europe and Asia
- +450
Scopus Affiliation ID 131470926See publications
The next podium could be your child's
The best way to understand the club is for your child to take a class with us. Visit our facilities in Colonia Escalón, talk to our teachers and decide.
Free demo class · No commitment