The team at educational building toy company Click-A-Brick has commended a new Albuquerque toy startup that aims to specifically teach girls engineering skills through toys and accompanying online components. As Girls Grow, co-founded by CEO Akamee Baca Malta, is just getting started with prototyping for their first product. The company has recently finished going through a business incubator called ABQid and will take to Kickstarter for funding once it has its prototyping done. Malta said she decided to start the company when she couldn’t find any toys marketed toward girls...

The new series of toys by companies Digital Dream Labs, Make Wonder and Sphero are designed to allow children to grasp the concepts of coding. The companies claim that coding skills can be made sufficiently simple for a child to master. Jason Smith, the Co-Founder of Click-A-Brick, endorses the direction of these new toys. “These are a new type of toy that aims to teach children the foundations of computer programming,” Smith said. “The process is so much fun it feels more akin to playing than to learning. The toys...

Las Vegas, United States - September 22, 2015 /MarketersMedia/ — A new building toy that is specifically meant to teach children about racial diversity among families and to be more representative of various family makeups has the team at Click-A-Brick nodding in approval. MyFamilyBuilders is a building set that contains 48 wooden pieces that consist of heads, torsos and lower bodies that can snap together to form various combinations of people. The set is meant for children to be able to create families that look like their own, but also...

A new, original, live-action Netflix miniseries called Project Mc2 aimed at getting more girls interested in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields has the team at educational building toy company Click-A-Brick excited about its potential. Mc2 follows the exploits of four teenaged girls who are recruited by a secret spy agency to help save a planned rocket launch using their STEM skills. The characters and actresses playing them are: McKeyla McAlister, played by Mika Abdalla, Adrienne Attoms, played by Victoria Vida, Bryden Bandweth, played by Genneya Walton, and...

The team at educational toy company Click-A-Brick says a new list of non-toy items that every child should have, written by blogger Katherine Martinko and appearing on the Treehugger.com site, is a refreshing departure from the usual must-have toy lists that usually start popping up around this time of year. Martinko draws from her own childhood memories and says to give a child a fulfilling childhood with, parents should give them items that will get them imagining and playing even when they’re away from their toy box. A map of...

The team at Click-A-Brick say they are impressed by the ingenuity shown by building block toy rental companies, saying they cater to a unique market of customers who want to experience the toys without having to commit to buying them. One new site that has recently launched in the United Kingdom, BuildurBricks, allows customers to rent the latest Lego sets for about £10 or £25 per month depending on the size of the set. They come with the original instructions and are sanitized between rentals. Co-founder of BuildurBricks, Ash Jey,...

Educational toy company Click-A-Brick says the opening of the STEM3 Academy in Los Angeles last month fills a void in the education system by giving students with autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities, ADHD, developmental delays, abuse and emotional problems a chance to study science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in an environment that will cater to their unique ways of learning. According to the STEM3 Academy’s website, approximately 20 percent of the population has a social or learning difference such as dyslexia, ADHD or autism while as many as...

A movement in Australia to introduce science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to students as early as kindergarten is the right way to get them interested in these subjects, the team at building set toy company Click-A-Brick says. In a column for the Canberra Times, school curriculum and technology integration specialist Dr. Jane Hunter of the School of Education at the University of Western Sydney wrote that if schools want children to become interested in the STEM fields as they grow, they’ll need to introduce these concepts in kindergarten....

The Woodbury School is a preschool and kindergarten program associated with The Strong museum. It offers a an early kindergarten program for four- and five-year-old children. It also provides a preschool program for three- and four-year-old children. The Strong's Woodbury School is based on the Reggio Emilia approach. It integrates an emergent curriculum approach that encourages teachers and students to work together to plan the curriculum and create projects. Children delve deeply into topics that fascinate them, guided by teachers who facilitate their explorations. The overall goal is to stimulate...

The Strong Museum has a new exhibit called ‘Game Time!’ It chronicles the games and toys people played with throughout three centuries of American history. The interactive children’s museum exhibit allows visitors to move around like a piece on a giant game board, play with oversized toy props, and see historic items from the game and puzzle collections. The focus of the exhibit is family oriented, active and hands-on. Visitors will be able to track the history of games through a multimedia timeline. It showcases historic artifacts, photographs, advertisements, and...