Your Community. Your Learning. Your Partners.

Led by COSI and the State of Ohio, the Ohio Distance Learning Initiative brings together museums, cultural institutions, libraries, and schools to deliver FREE STEAM educational kits, called Learning Lunchboxes, to underserved youth and families throughout Ohio. We have served an estimated 400,000 students with hands-on science interactives and digital resources, thus far.

Our ongoing mission is to close education gaps by enhancing learning experiences at home, in the classroom, and within the community, and the goal for all youth and students is the same, to feed their hungry minds.

We invite you to keep the engagement alive by accessing our free resources. Please share this information and the available links with educators, curriculum specialists, principals, and other key stakeholders within your community.

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COSI's Learning Lunchboxes are FREE STEAM learning kits that cover a variety of STEAM topics. Each box contains all materials needed for at least five STEAM-themed activities and experiments. See the different topics listed below.