In the summer of 2025, Vivaan and Virat Ponugoti, sophomores at Conestoga High School, stepped up as co-founders of what would grow into a STEM movement in the Main Line area. Invited by their friend Simon to volunteer at a Robotics Summer Camp at Lower Merion High School, the brothers quickly moved from volunteers to instructors, drawing on their skills in programming, robotics, and STEM education.

Inspired by this experience, Vivaan and Virat borrowed VEX Robotics kits and brought the idea back to Berwyn, PA. They invited their friends Madeleine Lan, Michael Jihoon Park, and Lemuel Xu to form the core team that helped deliver a local Robotics Summer Camp for students in grades 5–9.

The initiative quickly gained momentum. Stacey Ballard, President of EADEH Enterprises, offered workspace for the program, which enabled the team to organize, market, and successfully enroll 13 students. During the camp, they hosted Frank Farrell, Executive Director of FIRST Mid-Atlantic Robotics, and Bill Lynch, President of Isolite Corporation, both of whom extended guidance and support. By the end of the camp, the students had also raised $2,500 in seed funding.

Encouraged by this success, Vivaan and Virat began laying the foundation for something bigger: launching a new FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) chapter, Team 10989 Blast Robotics, and establishing Keystone STEM Alliance Inc. as a nonprofit to provide sustainable fundraising and resources for the team.

What started as a grassroots summer program has now grown into a youth-led nonprofit that builds not only robots, but also leadership, opportunity, and community impact.