The BOOM

The BOOM The BOOM is an Engineering School-of-the-Streets The BOOM is an Engineering School-of-the-Streets in a disadvantaged community.

Our mission is to reduce violence, and nurture cognitive growth, physical activity, economic opportunity, and local roots culture. We benefit people suffering from poverty, violence, drug abuse, toxic waste, incarceration, and lack of appreciation. The project is informed by Public Mental Health strategies and alternative education. The core of our project is a portable music player. Bayview Boomb

oxes are handmade by residents of a unique community in San Francisco, called Bayview Hunters Point. When a person builds something powerful and beautiful with their hands, it makes them feel powerful and beautiful. Our method is to develop a high-quality, bumpin' music product, designed to consumer standards, that can be built at low cost by our trained crafts-people. Then, we'll implement a street-savvy marketing strategy to get this product into the eager hands of B-Boys and B-Girls everywhere (that’s Bicycle Boys and Bicycle Girls).

-We deliver our activities in the heart of the most troubled neighborhoods, often in backyards.
-We provide mentoring in boombox electronics, bicycle repair, motorcycle repair, and more. Participants learn to use professional tools, techniques, and terminology.
-We create apprenticeships for at-risk young adults in local vehicle shops, art studios, and machine shops.
-Boombox sales teach entrepreneurship, and offer an opportunity to earn. Mechanical and electronic assembly and repair involve constant problem-solving, troubleshooting, and improvising. This gives our participants a much-needed sense of control, and the confidence to solve other, personal, real-life problems. These are transferable thinking-skills that our communities need. Assembly and repair projects provide unemployed or out-of-school youths with a constructive, healthy alternative activity.

The BOOM is proud to receive a $1,000 grant from the beloved Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This grant will help cover...
05/21/2024

The BOOM is proud to receive a $1,000 grant from the beloved Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This grant will help cover the cost of engineering our innovative battery-charging circuitry. The charger will be installed in our new teen-built boomboxes, who attend the BOOM boombox engineering academy for disadvantaged teenagers.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are devoted to uplifting communities, using humor and irreverent wit to free the human spirit. They've been bringing joy to the Bay Area since the 1970's.

We congratulate this year's other worthy grantees. We especially love Bad Business Model Bikes, who repairs and donates used bicycles to people in need, and Kennedy High Welding Pathway, a high school welding and engineering program.

Thank you, Sisters!

Please help us cover the cost of prototyping our battery charger. Your donation will be matched!
boo.ma/donate

(photo from the award ceremony)
https://www.thesisters.org/grants
https://www.wccusd.net/Page/15448

TODAY, March 31, Come celebrate with The BOOM, as we receive a grant from the beloved Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence!at...
03/31/2024

TODAY, March 31, Come celebrate with The BOOM, as we receive a grant from the beloved Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence!

at their 45th Annual Easter Hop. Don't miss the Hunky Jesus & Foxy Mary Contest!! The festivities take place at Dolores Park, San Francisco, from 10 am to 4 pm.

This grant will support the BOOM's innovative boombox academy for disadvantaged teens in the Bay Area and beyond.

The Sisters are a leading-edge Order of q***r and trans nuns, devoted to human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment, using humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit.

Thank you, Sisters!

Thank you to the incredible Protolabs team, Autodesk engineers, and BOOM volunteer engineers who helped us win the Proto...
09/10/2021

Thank you to the incredible Protolabs team, Autodesk engineers, and BOOM volunteer engineers who helped us win the Protolabs Cool Idea design award and manufacturing grant!

The goal of Cool Idea Award winner, the BOOM, is to teach entrepreneurship, engineering, and economic skills to teen boys and girls who lack opportunities to learn marketable skills.

The BOOM is proud to announce that we've been accepted into the Autodesk Residency program. We'll use this opportunity t...
09/04/2020

The BOOM is proud to announce that we've been accepted into the Autodesk Residency program. We'll use this opportunity to continue development of our youth-built boombox. Thank you, Autodesk!

https://www.autodesk.com/technology-centers/residency

When you build something powerful and beautiful, it makes you feel powerful and beautiful. Engineering School-of-the-Streets Not intended for commercial distribution or profit. Music property of Earth, Wind, and Fire or representatives Our mission is to reduce violence, and promote emotional growth,...

THANK YOU to Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and Dorkbot for hosting a fundraising webinar for the BOOM!https://www.fa...
06/27/2020

THANK YOU to Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and Dorkbot for hosting a fundraising webinar for the BOOM!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2992937184157160/

https://grayarea.org/event/patch-connect-dorkbot-sf/

To launch our new series of creative conversations, we're teaming up with the dorkbot-SF community for a night of electric experimentations. Known for creating social forums for local artists to present new artworks, technologies, and soft/hardware, dorkbot-SF gives us a chance to learn about new pr...

Bayview BOOM won Second Place at the 2019 San Francisco Not Impossible Awards!"The Not Impossible Awards honors those wh...
03/03/2019

Bayview BOOM won Second Place at the 2019 San Francisco Not Impossible Awards!

"The Not Impossible Awards honors those who transform lives with purpose driven technology for the sake of humanity."

Our prize was a gorgeous skateboard, emblazoned with original artwork by 99designs, featuring a blue-haired Alex Merlin Glow and electronic magic. Wow!

Thank you Hackster.io and Hax San Francisco.

https://www.notimpossible.com/awards

Many thanks to FREEWIRE TECHNOLOGIES for donating to the BOOM 100,000 rechargeable batteries worth $200K! freewiretech.c...
02/11/2018

Many thanks to FREEWIRE TECHNOLOGIES for donating to the BOOM 100,000 rechargeable batteries worth $200K!
freewiretech.com

These cells will power a lot of youth-built boomboxes :)

Thanks to our partners throughout the Bay Area who donated storage for these packs including:
Gow Plumbing Supply, Bayview
Bob Mackey, Chief Research Scientist for Synaptics
Shaun & Kelly Coffee and Spaceships
Luke Iseman, boxouse.com
Kate Wright
Jake Spaz
Evren and Mark Forgette
Edmo
Adrian Kelly
The X

Me and the original Baby Champ, Founder of the Scraper Bikes! Wow, what a privilege.
08/03/2017

Me and the original Baby Champ, Founder of the Scraper Bikes! Wow, what a privilege.

Bayview BOOM in Make Magazine! http://boo.ma/makezine
06/26/2017

Bayview BOOM in Make Magazine!
http://boo.ma/makezine

Bayview BOOM teaches teens electronics assembly, woodworking, metalworking and product design so they can build their own boomboxes.

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