The team at building set toy company Click-A-Brick have praised a Canadian mother’s ingenuity for inspiring her daughter’s interest in engineering while simultaneously providing a female role model in the field of engineering for all young children. Dinah Davis, in a blog post for the Medium blog network The Lighthouse, outlined how her seven-year-old daughter received a letter from Santa Claus informing the girl that Mrs. Claus wanted to pass along a greeting, but she was busy in the workshop fixing the toy-making machine. Furthermore, the letter revealed that Mrs....

The Click-A-Brick crew has high praise for a program that uses building blocks to not only teach children science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills, but also teaches them to use those skills to solve real world problems affecting the Earth today. First Lego Junior League uses the popular building toy to encourage children to think about ways to solve major problems and build simple, motorized machines to deal with them while adhering to core values of celebrating discovery, using teamwork and displaying gracious professionalism. The 2015-2016 Waste Wise Challenge...

Click-A-Brick has launched three promotions that give fans of the educational building toy the chance to win free sets or free Amazon gift cards or to receive a free Starbucks gift card for displaying their creativity and giving feedback on the toy. Post a Selfie to Win The Post a Selfie to Win promotion requires fans to either take a selfie with their Click-A-Brick creation (or have parents take a photo of their children with their creation) or just take a photo of the creation by itself and post the...

Building block toy company Click-A-Brick hails a new list of basic toys that every child should have. The list, from Barbara Danza, parenting journalist of the Epoch Times, places blocks at the top, saying they are an essential part of any child’s toy box and make a superb gift idea for children this holiday season or any other time of year. While the majority of gift ideas for the holidays revolve around toys that light up, make a lot of noise and feature the latest movie characters, these types of...

The crew behind learning toy Click-A-Brick are elated to see that Miss Vermont Alayna Westcom is using her status to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills in schools across the state of Vermont and encouraging students to pursue education in the STEM areas. Although she didn’t get top honors in the Miss America pageant, Westcom grabbed attention in September by being the first ever contestant to perform a science experiment during the talent portion of the pageant. With an education in forensic science at Bay Path University in...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a new paper that states that digital media can be used to enhance skills and abilities. This is in contrast to a previous stance that expressed negativity towards the amount of time children spent on digital media. The AAP has found that digital media can facilitate reasoning and problem solving skills, enhance a child’s ability to follow directions and improve self control. This statement represents a significant reversal on the AAP previous stance. The attitude of the AAP towards digital gadgets had been...

The LEGO Group has established the LEGO Sustainable Materials Centre. It will be established at the their headquarters in Billund, Denmark during 2015 and 2016. This new endeavour whose mission is to produce more renewable energy than it consumes. It also aims to change current materials of building elements to more sustainable alternatives. This decision was taken at the General Assembly of the company in May 2015. The Co-Founder of Click-A-Brick, Jason Smith, approves of the venture. “This is a milestone,” Smith said. “I think that because they are a...

The team at Click-A-Brick say StemBox -- a new product that has a unique way of getting girls interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) -- is one of the best gifts a girl could receive to get her interested in STEM concepts. With StemBox, girls sign up to a subscription service that will send them a kit each month that includes everything they need to perform a science experiment. Each StemBox has a different concept to explore and different experiments to perform. In addition to the boxes, the...

The team behind learning toy Click-A-Brick is pleased to hear about the launch of the Play Fair event at the Toy Industry Association’s North American International Toy Fair in New York next year, saying it will give the public an opportunity to not just see new toy offerings, but to interact with them, as well. Billed as “a celebration of play and entertainment for all ages,” the inaugural Play Fair event will run Feb. 13-14 at the Jacob Javits Center North in New York City during the 2016 Toy Fair,...

The pressure on schools to find more instructional time has led many institutions to take those minutes from time previously set aside for recess. The downward trend for recess time doesn’t just stop there though. Research has found that schools located in urban and high-poverty zones often get no recess at all. The Center on Education Policy (CEP) tracks the effects of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policy on schooling. In 2007, it surveyed the impact of NCLB on instructional and recess time. It discovered that twenty percent of...