​West Palm Beach, Fla., January 23, 2024 – The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust team met with the Estella’s Brilliant Bus Executive Committee and our Underwater Robotics students on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at the Palm Beach Lakes Community High School.

Estella’s Brilliant Bus thanks its volunteers, teachers, educators and bus drivers for the many hours of service to the students in Florida this year.  Driving to schools, youth clubs, and mobile home communities, providing youth of all ages the opportunity to become comfortable with STEAM learning and technology that would otherwise be unavailable to them. By getting parents, students and schools involved, the Brilliant Bus team has been able to make a difference within entire communities since the program’s inception in 2008.

Estella's Brilliant Bus Kids Fishing Clinic was a great success.  Thank you to all those who helped make it happen.

Deep in the Favelas of Itinga, Bahia, Brazil a special Easter event took place at UPMI steam learning center.  A unique learning center teaching STEAM classes and supporting the community in the Favelas of Bahia, Brazil inspired by Estella Pyfrom.  The Favela kids Easter event was set up to put some smiles on the faces of local youth and kids for Easter and was a great success.
Chief of staff for the Mayor or Lauro de freitas Secretario Lula Maciel was in attendance with some of his staff from local government.