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STEM Education News of the Week – Top Three Science, Toys, Engineering and Math

STEM Toys, Open-Ended Play and What-If Creating This is a clear and short article on how allowing kids (pre-k through elementary school) to build and create with the open-endedness of raw materials promotes STEM Education. Alas, that is the spirit of the BionicBlox wooden building and innovation set for kids. STEM – Science, Toys, Engineering [...]

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Providence Museum Adds BionicBlox to their Wooden Building Blocks Exhibit

The Children’s Museum of Providence Rhode Island is adding BionicBlox and BionicStars to their existing stacking block and wooden block exhibit. Kids build with interesting blocks of all shapes and sizes in Discovery Studio, the Museum’s open-ended art and science exploration space. Stack blocks to construct tall towers, experiment with tangram puzzles, and build on [...]

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Fort Worth Museum of Science Teaching Success with BionicBlox

Fort Worth Museum of Science  has been exhibiting the award winning BionicStar connectors along with Keva Planks for months now.  In addition to promoting science teaching success with BionicBlox they are on display in their STEM education tinkering lab the educational outreach program uses them in schools to teach science and engineering concepts.  Kids and [...]

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BionicBlox Education Toy in Science and Discovery Museums

BionicBlox are being widely adopted by Science and Discovery Museums throughout the country. Museums are quickly discovering that BionicBlox combined with an existing supply of planks like Keva® planks, Citiblocs® or Kapla® provide “totally new ways of building”. The excitement comes from kids (and their parents are able to easily build big, durable structures that [...]