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Electrification.
Education.
Exploration.

BloomBox is a bright, welcoming space where students can fulfill their creative potential. 

The first BloomBox was built in the backyard of a grade 10 student in Vancouver, Canada. It was a love letter from Sofie, to her friend Faith, an aspiring Disney animator, who lived 15,000 miles away, in Blantyre, Malawi.

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Sofie Roux is now an architecture and material science student at Stanford. She's had a lifelong love for STEAM education and deeply believes in the power of girls' creativity to change the world.
Faith now studies art and design at the University of Malawi.   

BloomBox Design Labs has so far built 4 state of the art labs across Malawi, moved all production to within the Southern African Development Community, formed as a public benefit company, and become an official partner of the Government of Malawi's Ministry of Education.

Our mission is to make high quality education accessible to all students through powerful and sustainable design.

BloomBox Design Labs is dedicated to the application of sustainable design strategies, materials, and energy to advancing access to high quality education, innovative entrepreneurism, and development in low resource, rural, and remote environments. Many of these environments represent emerging populations and markets with vast human potential and unmet needs for infrastructure for education, commerce and housing. Conventional methods of construction and energy distribution are unable to keep pace with population needs for infrastructure and for participation in the ideas economy. BloomBox Design Labs Inc. employs modular and configurable strategies to scale access to educational and general infrastructure and to provide sustainable energy to growing communities. This includes the upcycling of shipping containers as well as custom made retractable structures, application of solar power, precision design of indoor/outdoor spaces for specific and adaptable uses, local production, sourcing, supply chains, and employment. Modularity, transportability, and retractability of the built infrastructure to address dynamic needs and security, are key features of design. Customers, including schools, businesses, housing developers, and governments would access design, architecture, supply chain, and logistics experience in the creation of human centered infrastructure. 
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09.2024
 

Interest in the BloomBox RSRS as a disaster relief solution

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09.2024
 

Roadtrip of Retractable Solar Roof System to RE+ trade show in Anaheim, CA

BloomBox 4.0 Launch marks the beginning of official partnership

08.2024
 

Construction of BloomBox 4.0 at the Malawi Ministry of Education in Zomba

01.2024
 

Installation of Starlink satellite internet at all BloomBox labs

11.2023
 

SuperBloom app teased at all-girls school in Vancouver, BC

08.2023
 

BloomBox 3.0 Launch at Dzaleka Refugee Camp

08.2023
 

Team arrives at Dzaleka Refugee Camp, largest refugee camp in Malawi

02.2023
 

BloomBox concept wins at BASES StartUp challenge at Stanford

08.2022
 

BloomBox 2.0 Launches with Retractable Solar Roof System

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08.2022
 

All BloomBox production moved to Southern Africa

08.2022
 

Peter and Mike see the ocean for the first time on working trip to South Africa

10.2021
 

Redesign of BloomBox roof to become more transportable, modular and secure as per Ministry's request

08.2021
 

Malawi Ministry of Education calls our team on the construction site of BloomBox 1.0 with questions

08.2021
 

BloomBox 1.0 Launch Day in Blantyre, MW

08.2021
 

Lights turn on at BloomBox 1.0 

08.2021
 

BloomBox concept becomes reality

10.2020
 

Construction of BloomBox 1.0 begins in Vancouver backyard, shipped during global shipping crisis

02.2020
 

Sanitary pad making machine installed in Cape Town with Sparkly and Smart funds

08.2019
 

Faith visits Sofie's mural and inspires the BloomBox initiative

08.2019
 

3 water wells installed in Malawi with Sparkly and Smart funds (Sofie's first trip to Malawi)

09.2016
 

Launch of Sparkly and Smart art social enterprise
Raises first round 

09.2010
 

First computer lab installed with the guidance of lifelong mentor, Rosie Mashale in Khayelitsha Township, SA

08.2024
 

10.2009
 

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First meeting to make crafts to raise funds to support girls' education

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