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A simple app to seamlessly connect skilled NYC volunteers with educators.


We focus on STEM volunteers and educators to bring custom, real-world STEM learning opportunities for NYC after school programs.


This project is being built by ARGO Labs, a nonprofit that builds, operates, and maintains pioneering data infrastructure to imagine new paradigms for public service delivery.

Email us if you want to get in touch, collaborate or partner.

Learnr was a semi-finalist at NYC BIG APPS in the Civic Engagement category. 

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Guardian Article from NYU Govlab's Co-Founder and Director articulating a "swipe right" approach

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Analysis to measure need for NYC afterschool expansion towards more equitable RFP decision making. This is what got us thinking about Learnr.

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An excerpt from 2015 TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC where pioneering VC, Fred Wilson articulates the need for a volunteer matching platform.

Finally, here is an excellent piece of influencing work from Google + MIT Civic. It conceptualizes the Interested Bystander, a person who is civically aware but not necessarily civically engaged. We designed Learnr keeping the Interested Bystander as our end-user and the end-beneficiaries are NYC students, educators and the volunteers themselves.