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WHY KIBO?

Screen-free, powered by imagination – and so many more reasons…

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KIBO in Action

Explore. Problem-solve. Innovate. Change things up. Make it your own.
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KIBO in the Classroom

Engaging today’s students requires much more than a tablet and mouse.

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KIBO at Home

Learn to code without screentime? Yes, parents – it can be done!
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Which KIBO?

KIBO 10/15/18/21? Classroom Package? Let us help find the right KIBO for you.

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Using KIBO

We can help you get started with tutorials, activities, curriculum and more.

For Educators

For Educators

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Using KIBO in the Classroom

Engaging today’s students requires much more than a tablet and mouse.

KIBO being used with classroom curriculum

Curriculum

Our comprehensive set of STEM curriculum materials supports you in every way.
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Professional Development

Hands-on experiences to target the different needs of schools and early childhood centers.
Teachers working with KIBO

Grants

There are thousands of grants for educators of all kinds. And it can all start with KIBO.
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Research

KIBO is brought to you after more than 20 years of early childhood research.
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Classroom Packages

Get the right number of KIBOs, valuable training,  curriculum, workbooks + more!

Resources

Resources

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Tutorials

Video explanations of all KIBO’s functionality

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Activities

Learn and have fun with your KIBO!

Professional Development

White Papers & Webinars

See the collection of KIBO White Papers, guides, and webinar recordings.

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Experiences

Unique ways to learn with your KIBO

KIBO using IF/End IF Conditional programming blocks

Troubleshoot

If KIBO is no longer moving & shaking, we can help!

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Research

KIBO is brought to you after more than 20 years of early childhood research.

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Three kids using KIBO for STEAM Learning Image

WHY KIBO?

Screen-free, powered by imagination – and so many more reasons…

KIBO Robot customized by students

KIBO in Action

Explore. Problem-solve. Innovate. Change things up. Make it your own.
Kids learning programming with KIBO in school Image

KIBO in the Classroom

Engaging today’s students requires much more than a tablet and mouse.

Child learning with KIBO at home Image

KIBO at Home

Learn to code without screentime? Yes, parents – it can be done!
KIBO with modules added

Which KIBO?

KIBO 10/15/18/21? Classroom Package? Let us help find the right KIBO for you.

Kids turning KIBO into birds Image

Using KIBO

We can help you get started with tutorials, activities, curriculum and more.

For Educators
Kids using KIBO on Map Image

Using KIBO in the Classroom

Engaging today’s students requires much more than a tablet and mouse.

KIBO being used with classroom curriculum

Curriculum

Our comprehensive set of STEM curriculum materials supports you in every way.
Two Teachers at a KIBO Professional Development Event Image

Professional Development

Hands-on experiences to target the different needs of schools and early childhood centers.
Teachers working with KIBO

Grants

There are thousands of grants for educators of all kinds. And it can all start with KIBO.
Three children creating Lego designs on their KIBO robot image

Research

KIBO is brought to you after more than 20 years of early childhood research.
Children storytelling with KIBO Image

Classroom Packages

Get the right number of KIBOs, valuable training,  curriculum, workbooks + more!

Resources
Amanda Sullivan training an educator to use KIBO image

Tutorials

Video explanations of all KIBO’s functionality

Westward Expansion Project KIBO Wagon

Activities

Learn and have fun with your KIBO!

Professional Development

White Papers & Webinars

See the collection of KIBO White Papers, guides, and webinar recordings.

Science - KIBO Whale Migration Image

Experiences

Unique ways to learn with your KIBO

KIBO using IF/End IF Conditional programming blocks

Troubleshoot

If KIBO is no longer moving & shaking, we can help!

Three children creating Lego designs on their KIBO robot image

Research

KIBO is brought to you after more than 20 years of early childhood research.

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KinderLab and KIBO Awards

Learn more about the KinderLab and KIBO awards and certificatons we are honored to have received.

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Purdue University 2024 Inspire Engineering Gift Guide

Purdue University 2024 Inspire Engineering Gift Guide

We are honored KIBO is again included in Purdue University’s 2024 Engineering Gift Guide! The engineering-inspired holiday gifts encourage kids to design, build, code, play, and discover. See all the engaging gifts evaluated and reviewed! Our reviewer stated:

“KIBO offers endless enjoyment and learning opportunities for budding programmers. After being in our top five last year, the KIBO 15 Robot Kit certainly deserves a spot on our list again this year! Overall, this kit fosters strong programming skills and lays the foundation for understanding coding algorithms in the future.”

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Nevada STEMList of Recommended STEM Programs

Nevada STEMList of Recommended STEM Programs

We are happy to announce that KIBO has been evaluated and listed a a Model product and included in Nevada’s STEMList of Recommended STEM Programs from the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology (OSIT). This list is used by schools, teachers, school districts, the
Nevada Department of Education, and grantors to make funding decisions.

Inclusion on this list means KIBO embodies research-based attributes of high-quality STEM programming, as described in the Nevada STEMList Rubric and determined by OSIT’s State-wide team of STEM-expert reviewers.

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Best of ISTE 2024 Awards

Best of ISTE 2024 Awards

We are honored to have won Tech & Learning’s Best in Show Award at ISTELIVE 24!

Tech & Learning has recognized the KIBO robot and it’s AI curriculum Thinking with KIBO: Introducing Artificial Intelligence in Early Grades as one of the best products at the show supporting innovation in education.

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The 2024 EdTech Cool Tool Awards

EdTech Cool Tool Award Winner 2024

KIBO’s AI instruction and curriculum for young learners for Early Learners has been named as the Cool Tool Winner in their EdTech Cool Tool Award in the Robotics (for learning, education) Solution category! The EdTech Awards is the largest recognition program for education technology. The EdTech Awards recognize outstanding contributions in transforming education to enrich the lives of all learners. 

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2024 FETC Top EdTech Product Finalist

2024 FETC Top EdTech Product Finalist

We are honored to be finalist for District Administration‘s 2024 Top EdTech Products in the Curriculum & Instructional Technology category for “Thinking with KIBO: Early Elementary AI Curriculum”! This award highlights innovative & impactful edtech K-12 solutions.

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2024 FETC Pitchfest Winner

2024 FETC Pitchfest Finalist

KIBO has been named as the winner in the FETC’s Pitchfest in the Early Childhood Learning Category! Jason Innes, our Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management presented the KinderLab story and the benefits of using the screen-free KIBO robot with PreK and elementary learners to a panel of district administrators, teachers, parents, investors, and industry experts during FETC 2024.

Watch the Pitchfest presentation and see for yourself the importance of KIBO for early learners.

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Purdue University 2023 Inspire Engineering Gift Guide

Purdue University 2023 Inspire Engineering Gift Guide

KIBO has been vetted, reviewed and included in the 2023 Inspire Purdue University College of Engineering Gift Guide! This guide includes only extensively reviewed products to ensure thoughtful, engineering-inspired holiday presents that encourage kids to design, build, code, play, and discover. KIBO is featured as a top 5 reviewed gift.

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The 2023 EdTech Cool Tool Awards

The 2023 EdTech Cool Tool Awards

KIBO has been named as a Cool Tool Winner in their EdTech Cool Tool Award in the Robotics (for learning, education) Solution category! The EdTech Awards is the largest recognition program in all of education technology. The EdTech Awards from EdTech Digest recognizes outstanding contributions in transforming education to enrich the lives of all learners. We are thrilled to be names as the winner of this award that includes innovators, leaders, and trendsetters in K-12, higher ed, and workforce learning; staying connected, productive, and persistent.

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The 2021 EdTech Awards

The 2021 EdTech Awards

KIBO was once again named as a finalist in their EdTech Cool Tool Award in the Robotics (for learning, education) Solution category! The EdTech Awards is the largest recognition program in all of education technology. The EdTech Awards from EdTech Digest recognizes outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. We are thrilled to be a finalist in this award that includes innovators, leaders, and trendsetters in K-12, higher ed, and workforce learning; staying connected, productive, persistent, and getting us closer despite the challenges of the last year.
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The 2020 EdTech Awards

The 2020 EdTech Awards

The EdTech Awards, celebrating its 10th anniversary, is the largest recognition program in all of education technology, recognizing the biggest names in edtech – and those who soon will be. KIBO was named as a finalist in their EdTech Cool Tool Award in the Robotics (for learning, education) Solution category! This year’s finalists and winners were narrowed from the larger field and judged based on various criteria, including: pedagogical workability, efficacy and results, support, clarity, value and potential. The EdTech Awards recognizes people in and around education for outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. Featuring edtech’s best and brightest, the annual program shines a spotlight on cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors. The EdTech Awards recognize people—and the products they produce and lives they shape.

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The 2020 Academics’ Choice Awards

The 2020 Academics’ Choice Awards

We are thrilled KIBO was awarded as one of the winners of the Fall 2020 Academics’ Choice Brain Toy Award. The Academics’ Choice Awards™ and its seal of excellence are recognized worldwide by consumers and educational institutions and is given to the best mind-building media and toys, recognizing effective learning tools that stimulate the mind and develop higher order thinking skills. One of the reviewers stated, “KinderLab has created a wonderful answer to the need for early age STEAM learning. KIBO was designed for children to build and code without requiring screen time. This element really sets KIBO apart from the rest.“

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The 2019 EdTech Awards

The 2019 EdTech Awards

The EdTech Awards are the largest and most competitive program recognizing the biggest names in edtech, featuring the best and brightest. KIBO was named as a finalist in their EdTech Cool Tool Award in the Robotics (for learning, education) Solution category! This year’s finalists and winners were narrowed from the larger field and judged based on various criteria, including: pedagogical workability, efficacy and results, support, clarity, value and potential. The EdTech Awards recognizes people in and around education for outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. Featuring edtech’s best and brightest, the annual program shines a spotlight on cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors. The EdTech Awards recognize people—and the products they produce and lives they shape.

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The 2019 Tech Edvocate Awards

The 2019 Tech Edvocate Awards

The 2019 Tech Edvocate Awards honors this year’s top edtech companies, products, people and more. Nominees during the online voting period was used to gauge popularity, followed by the selection of finalists and winners by a panel comprised of two edtech thought leaders, two PreK-12 teachers, one college professor, two K-12 administrators, one college administrator and two PreK-12 parents. KIBO was selected as a finalist in the Best Early Childhood Education App or Tool category.

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The 2019 Academics’ Choice Awards

The 2019 Academics’ Choice Awards

We are thrilled to learn that KIBO was awarded as one of the winners of the Spring 2019 Academics’ Choice Brain Toy Award. The Academics’ Choice Awards™ bring recognition to the best thinking-based products in the industry. Products are reviewed and evaluated based in constructivist learning theory. KIBO was determined by their academic board and evaluation teams to have robust educational value and strengthen cognitive skills. KIBO was evaluated by a panel of product-appropriate judges, including parents, educators, scientists, artists, doctors, nurses, librarians, students and children. When assessing overall winners, these attributes, must be met: Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS), General Thinking Skills and Standards, Character Building, Engagement, Ease of First/Simultaneous/Repeat Use, Quality/Durability, and Innovative and Unique.

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ISTE 2019 Best of Show

ISTE 2019 Best of Show

Tech & Learning’s ISTE Best in Show award program honors products at the annual ISTE conference. This year, KIBO was selected by an anonymous panel of educator judges, who visited us at the 2019 conference in Philadelphia. The judges evaluated areas such as quality and effectiveness, ease of use, cost, and creative use of technology. We are excited to receive this honor!

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The 2018 Tech Edvocate Awards

The 2018 Tech Edvocate Awards

The 2018 Edvocate Awards chose KIBO as one of the finalists for their Best Early Childhood Education App or Tool Category. KIBO was selected by a panel comprised of edtech thought leaders, PreK-12 teachers, K-12 administrators, and PreK-12 parents. The Tech Edvocate Awards honors the best that edtech has to offer by recognizing outstanding companies, people, and products.

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Parents Choice Award

Parents Choice Award

KIBO has been named a GOLD winner of the 2017 Parents’ Choice Award® in the Toy category. The Parents’ Choice Gold Award recognizes the “highest-quality, most appealing products in their genre” and recognized KIBO as a fun, imaginative and easy way for young children to learn 21st century STEAM concepts.

The Parents’ Choice Awards’ reviewer, Sharon Heuscher affirms, “Children simply connect the blocks in the desired sequence, scan the sequence with the [robot] base’s infrared sensor, and off the robot goes. This is a simple, hands-on, and multi-modal way for children to learn the basics of coding: sequencing, analytic thinking, problem-solving, and more.” She continues, “It’s all hands-on. And that’s playful learning at its best.”

The EdTech Awards 2018

The EdTech Awards 2018

KIBO has listed as a finalist in the Robotics (for learning, education) Solution category of The EdTech Awards 2018! The awards recognizes innovators, leaders, and trendsetters in educational technology and honors educators and supporting technologists who are shaping the future. We are thrilled to be included in such company and being one of the companies to be recognized, acknowledged, honored, and celebrated as one of the biggest names in edtech, shaping the future of edtech.

The 2018 Seriously STEM Awards

The 2018 Seriously STEM Awards

The inaugural Seriously STEM Awards was created to review and evaluate STEM toys for kids and to help offer valuable information to parents who understand the benefits of their kids’ learning STEM but who need help making the right STEM product choices. The Seriously STEM Awards chose KIBO as their winner for their Technology/Preschool Category. KIBO was selected by a panel of independent judges — educators, industry play experts and toy reviewers — with real expertise specifically in children and STEM. Criteria included whether the toy taught skills such as critical thinking and problem solving, inspired creativity, included hands-on experiences and was targeted to the appropriate age range, among other considerations.

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2017 Tech Edvocate Awards

2017 Tech Edvocate Awards

The 2017 Edvocate Awards honors educational innovations that transform the way people learn and how educators teach. KIBO was selected as a finalist in the Best Early Childhood Education App or Tool Category. The finalists and winners were selected by a panel comprised of two edtech thought leaders, two PreK-12 teachers, one college professor, two K-12 administrators, one college administrator and two PreK-12 parents.

Tutora Educational Awards 2017

Tutora Educational Awards 2017

Tutora honored KIBO as one of the best educational products of the year. “This is the perfect kit for children who love art and creativity. Not only do you get to learn programming, you also get to build and decorate your robot.

With no need to use any apps or websites to code your robot, this is also a great kit for parents who like to keep their kids screen time at a minimum. Programming is done with the amazing programming blocks and helps kids learn all the concepts of coding and creating sequences.”

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