KIBO by KinderLab

With KIBO, children imagine, build, decorate, program, and bring their own robots to life! Learning with KIBO is fun, imaginative and easy. Your youngest learners will playfully discover STEAM concepts by coding with wooden building blocks, create programs and sequences and learn the Engineering Design Process.

Young children learn by doing. KIBO gives them the chance to collaborate in groups and to produce ideas that are physical and tangible—exactly what their young minds and bodies need. KIBO does this without requiring screen time from PCs, tablets or smartphones.

Designed for open-ended play, as well as structured curricula, KIBO enables kids to make almost anything they can think of: a character from a story, a carousel, a dancer, a race car, a helicopter. With KIBO, young children can become programmers, engineers, designers, artists, dancers, directors, choreographers, and writers – anything they want to be.

The program is standards based, and cross curricular, so teachers can easily incorporate KIBO into their existing lesson plans. KinderLab Robotics, makers of KIBO, also provides research-based curriculum and training to help teachers introduce STEM into their classrooms.

KinderLab’s mission is universal STEM literacy. Despite increasing emphasis on STEM in schools, significant gaps exist by gender, race, and income. Research also shows that early childhood is the optimal time to introduce STEM, but schools typically wait until middle or high school. KinderLab developed KIBO to address these issues.