Stem Sports

What Stem Sports does

Stem Sports, LLC is a Phoenix, Arizona-based privately-held educational curriculum company founded in 2013 that develops K-8 (and pre-kindergarten, plus special education) STEM curricula using sports as the real-life application for hands-on learning. The company offers more than a dozen sport-specific curriculum programs — baseball, basketball, bike, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball — along with multi-sport bundles (K-2, 3-5 & 6-8, Ball Edition, Net Edition, and the upcoming Preschool edition), an adaptive Special Teams Players curriculum for special needs students, and an at-home All-Star Subscription kit for families. Each curriculum is built around the 5E Instructional Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) and aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education; the company holds STEM.org Educational Research accreditation.

The business operates a hybrid revenue model combining one-time physical kit sales (quote-based, with full-kit bundles priced $849-$4,456) and recurring annual digital curriculum licenses ($1,300 minimum for a 30-student license, $35 per additional student), supplemented by professional development and training services. STEM Sports uses a sales-led go-to-market with direct website requests, purchase-order procurement by districts, and channel partnerships with sports organizations (New York Red Bulls, Skyhawks, PGA TOUR Tee-Up) and the 1GPA national purchasing cooperative. The company is small (1-10 employees), independently owned with no disclosed venture capital, and operates exclusively within the United States.

Name

Stem Sports

Legal name

Stem Sports, LLC

Website

https://stemsports.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stem Sports is a Phoenix-based privately-held education company that develops K-8 STEM curricula using sports as the real-life application, selling turnkey physical kits and annual digital licenses to US schools, after-school programs, camps, and families.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 STEM Curriculum Services

NAICS

All Other Schools and Instruction (61169), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Science & STEM Instruction (School-Delivered) (EDAJAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Physical Education (PE) & Fitness Programs (EDAJAJAC), Math & STEM Learning Technology (incl. Coding/Robotics Platforms) (EDAJAMAG)

Keywords

• K-8 STEM curriculum
• Sports-based learning
• Educational curriculum kits
• Classroom STEM programs
• After-school enrichment

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Physical Curriculum Kits: One-time purchase of physical curriculum kits containing sports equipment, teaching manuals, and supplementary materials. Each kit is designed for repeated use across multiple years and can serve hundreds of students.
2. Digital Curriculum Licenses: Annual subscription licenses for digital curriculum access. Minimum 30-student digital license required ($1,300), with additional student licenses at $35 each. Includes 90-minute live professional development training and on-demand videos.
3. Professional Development: Additional professional development and support packages available for purchase alongside curriculum kits.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Stem Sports provides turnkey K-8 STEM curriculum kits that use sports as the real-life application to drive hands-on, inquiry-based learning. Each curriculum kit includes 8 modules with 16+ hours of instruction covering sports such as baseball, basketball, bike, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball, along with sports equipment, teaching manuals, and digital resources. The curricula are aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education, delivered in both physical (kit) and digital (annual license) formats, and structured around the proprietary 5E Instructional Model.

Product overview

STEM Sports provides a comprehensive K-8 STEM education curriculum platform using sports as real-life applications for hands-on learning. The product portfolio spans 14 sport-specific curriculum programs (STEM Baseball, Basketball, Bike, Football, Golf, Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball) plus multi-sport editions (K-2, 3-5 & 6-8, Ball Edition, Net Edition, Preschool), a Special Teams Players curriculum for special needs students, and a Digital Curriculum platform. Each curriculum kit is turnkey, aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education, and designed for 16+ hours of instruction. The offerings use a 5E lesson planning model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) and include sports equipment, teaching manuals, and digital resources. An All-Star Subscription kit provides at-home STEM learning for families.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• STEM Baseball Curriculum An eight-module educational enrichment program combining STEM education with baseball as the real-life application. Covers composition of baseballs, field of play, pitching, engineering a pitching machine, and advancements in baseball. Aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education. Designed for K-8 classrooms.
• STEM Basketball Curriculum An eight-module curriculum with a minimum of 16 hours of instruction combining STEM education with basketball skills (dribbling, passing, shooting). Covers molecular contents of basketballs, temperature effects on play, shoe technology, Newton's Laws, and AI-powered shot tracking via the HomeCourt app in Module 7.0. Aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.
• STEM Bike Curriculum An innovative curriculum for grades 3-8 using six Cleary Bikes (3 24" and 3 26") with equipment for hands-on learning. Covers energy and velocity of bike rides, calculating calories and heart rate, and the engineering design process for bicycle helmets.
• STEM Football Curriculum An eight-module program combining football history with STEM-based activities. Covers in-game communication technology, nervous system and helmet engineering, graphing pass completions, and receiver glove technology. Aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.
• STEM Golf Curriculum An eight-lesson curriculum developed with PGA TOUR Tee-Up and Callaway Golf equipment. Covers climate effects on golf courses, gravity and golf balls, potential energy through club swings, and golf ball composition including dimple aerodynamics.
• STEM Hockey Curriculum An eight-module curriculum covering hockey's history and puck/stick composition. Explores physical properties of ice and molecular transformation, fundamental areas on the playing surface, and Newton's Second Law for shots. Includes floor hockey and ice hockey equipment.
• STEM Lacrosse Curriculum An eight-module educational program combining STEM with lacrosse. Covers lacrosse stick influence on potential energy, technology design for player tracking, engineering design process for headgear, and scale model construction of lacrosse fields. Includes a capstone on Indigenous people's contribution to modern society.
• STEM Multi-Sport K-2 Curriculum A curriculum for kindergarten through second grade introducing motor skills, spatial awareness, and movement patterns. Combines science aspects of basketball, football, golf, and soccer through play-based learning aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.
• STEM Multi-Sport Grades 3-5 & 6-8 Curriculum Multi-sport curriculum with two standardized lessons each from STEM Basketball, Football, Soccer, and Volleyball. Features 5E lesson plans developing critical thinking, collaboration, creative problem-solving, and leadership skills. Covers field goal percentage calculations and energy/motion differences between youth and foam footballs.
• STEM Multi-Sport Ball Edition Curriculum Multi-sport kit combining lessons from STEM Baseball, Golf, and Softball. Covers engineering design in baseball advancements, golf scoring, softball speed/energy with radar gun, and controlled experiments testing golf swing force. Includes PGA Tour Tee-Up equipment, Callaway Golf balls, and Rawlings baseballs/softballs.
• STEM Multi-Sport Net Edition Curriculum Multi-sport kit netting lessons from STEM Hockey, Lacrosse, and Tennis. Covers Playing on Ice, Kinetic Energy in Lacrosse, Keeping Score in Tennis, and wearable technology. Designed for grades 3-5 and 6-8 with equitable curriculum not requiring athletic excellence.
• STEM Multi-Sport Preschool Curriculum Preschool curriculum with 10 lessons for PK students covering Basketball, Football, Hockey, Soccer, and T-ball. Includes Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) alignment, SEL integration via CLASS Tool dimensions, and Emergent Language and Literacy Connections. Coming Fall 2026.
• STEM Soccer Curriculum An eight-module program using 5E lesson planning covering soccer basics and STEM concepts. Explores properly inflated soccer balls and molecular response, calorie burning correlation to active play, Engineering Design Process for goal line technology, and probability calculations for penalty kicks.
• STEM Softball Curriculum An eight-module educational enrichment program combining STEM education with softball. Covers forces in softball, evolution of softball gloves, offensive hitting, keeping score, and softball advancements. Aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.
• STEM Special Teams Players Curriculum Curriculum designed for special education and special needs students. Covers basketball behavior through observations, golf swing force through investigations, pickleball coordinate plane calculations, and soccer probability through penalty kicks. Corresponds to National K-12 Physical Education standards and adaptive PE requirements.
• STEM Tennis Curriculum An eight-module curriculum covering tennis and STEM. Includes measuring force in tennis motions using Newton's Second Law with Billie Jean King's Eye Coach Training System, drawing/classifying lines and angles for court dimensions, and comparing values/expressions for scoring. Aligned with NGSS, CCSS, and National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.
• STEM Volleyball Curriculum An eight-module program exploring volleyball science. Covers force, acceleration, mass and Newton's second law of motion, technology behind optimal serving speed, engineering design process for problem solutions, and math for measuring volleyball court area and perimeter. Includes Molten volleyballs and Bushnell radar gun.
• Digital Curriculum Digital learning platform providing printed and digital curriculum formats. Combines hands-on physical activities with digital lessons. Includes automated assessments, real-time progress monitoring, built-in accessibility, and instruction differentiation. Digital Licenses valid for one school year with 30-student minimum required.
• STEM Sports All-Star Subscription Kit At-home subscription kit delivering STEM lessons using sports over five months. Part of the At-Home product line for families seeking to expand STEM education outside school. Features sports as a facilitator of complex STEM concepts.

Quantifiable outcome

• 21% to 90% increase in student interest in STEM activities after curriculum exposure (from USA BMX Foundation 2018 survey)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• New York Red BullscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMLS soccer team partnered with STEM Sports to create a one-day STEM and soccer workshop for high school seniors, in collaboration with event sponsor New Jersey Institute of Technology. The partnership demonstrates how sports organizations can use their influence to support youth STEM education.
• Skyhawks Sports AcademycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSkyhawks, a youth sports camp company, paired with STEM Sports to implement curriculum during summer camps. This partnership helps combat summer learning loss by keeping kids engaged in STEM while participating in sports activities.
• PGA TOUR Tee-UpcoreTechnology or IntegrationGolf equipment partner providing clubs, balls, targets, and launchpads for STEM Golf curriculum. Includes right-handed and left-handed clubs sized appropriately for students.
• New Jersey Institute of TechnologyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEvent sponsor for the New York Red Bulls STEM workshop, serving as a co-developer of the one-day workshop that brought STEM and soccer together for high school seniors.
• 1GPAminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNational purchasing cooperative for educational institutions. STEM Sports is a member, allowing schools to purchase curriculum through the cooperative purchasing agreement.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Discovery Education: Discovery Education operates a broad K-12 digital content and curriculum platform with science and STEM offerings, sold via district-level agreements. It competes for the same standards-aligned K-12 STEM purchasing decisions with significantly larger resources and an existing district footprint.
• Scholastic Education: Scholastic Education sells K-8 books, magazines, and digital curriculum (including STEM titles) to schools and teachers. It shares the supplemental K-8 sales motion but operates as a much broader content publisher across many subjects.
• BrainPOP: BrainPOP provides K-8 educational content across STEM and other subjects via a subscription platform sold to schools and districts. It is a much larger, broader incumbent competing for the same supplemental curriculum budget with significantly more content breadth and marketing scale.
• PBS LearningMedia: PBS LearningMedia offers free and subscription K-12 educational content including STEM, sold to schools and districts. It competes for the same standards-aligned supplemental STEM budget and teacher adoption with much larger brand recognition and content breadth.

Direct peers

• Tynker: Tynker offers K-12 STEM and coding curriculum with both self-paced digital content and physical/kit extensions sold to schools and districts. It shares STEM Sports' subscription-based, standards-aligned, K-8 sales motion.
• LEGO Education: LEGO Education sells hands-on STEM kits and curriculum (e.g., SPIKE, WeDo) to K-8 schools through direct sales. Like STEM Sports, it bundles physical equipment with standards-aligned lesson plans and competes for the same supplemental curriculum budget.
• Code.org: Code.org provides free K-12 computer science and STEM curriculum adopted by a large share of U.S. school districts. While free rather than paid, it competes for the same standards-aligned STEM budget and teacher attention that STEM Sports targets.
• Open Phys Ed: Open Phys Ed provides standards-aligned K-12 physical education curriculum and resources to schools. It shares STEM Sports' PE-standards alignment and direct-to-school delivery model, though it focuses purely on PE without the STEM integration layer.
• Mystery Science: Mystery Science provides hands-on K-5 science curriculum delivered as lesson plans with video and activity kits, sold directly to schools. It is the closest analog to STEM Sports' standards-aligned, kit-based, teacher-ready science curriculum model.

Emerging players

• PLT4M: PLT4M provides PE and sports-focused technology curriculum for K-12 schools, blending fitness tracking with lesson content. It overlaps with STEM Sports on the sports-as-instructional-context thesis and the K-12 sales motion, though focused on fitness rather than STEM integration.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/STEMsportsUSA
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/STEMSportsUSA
• Facebookfacebook.com/STEMsportsUSA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stemsportsusa
• Instagraminstagram.com/stemsportsusa
• Pinterestpinterest.com/stemsportsusa
• TikToktiktok.com/@stemsportsusa

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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