There are plenty of toys and board games that can teach kids about electronics, science and how things work, but few are as effective as an Arduino kit. These bundles include everything you need to ...

Kids thrill to the power of making their toys do their bidding, yet they also delight in toys that surprise them with new responses. These toys for the very youngest technoheads-to-be tempt kids into ...

Parents, listen up: Put your kids in engineering and computer science classes. A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report says "software development skills continue to be the most in-demand" STEM ...

Dan Shapiro’s Robot Turtles board game Kickstarter showed there is serious appetite for kids’ games that aren’t just fun to play with but also sneakily teach core coding principles. Instead of the $25 ...

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In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects. In order to program your ...

Plenty of games and apps teach kids to code. But educators and toymakers are betting that teaching computer science isn’t about coding at all. “Computers have gotten so user-friendly that modern ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...