Kits Cubed: Oakland native and Stanford student starts nonprofit to help kids learn about science [Video]

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — A Stanford student is doing his part to Build a Better Bay Area.

He’s building kits to help kids learn science. An event was held to help distribute them to Bay Area students.

Twenty-one-year-old Stanford student Ahmed Muhammad started the nonprofit Kits Cubed in his backyard four years ago to teach kids about science in a fun, affordable and accessible way.

On Saturday, the nonprofit had its fourth annual STEM fair in Oakland, where it distributed kits to the first 1,000 students. Thirty partner organizations participated.

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The organization has distributed about 50,000 science kits to children around the country. One kit Muhammad showed ABC7 News included all the materials a child needs to produce a solar-powered toy car.

“This solar-powered kit takes kids through sort of our planet and introduces them to climate change and introduces them …