Tech Tinkering | KiP 2024

Oculus Go

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Oculus Go® has hundreds of educational apps for kids. From walking with dinosaurs to exploring the human body, kids can learn in a whole new way.

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Squishy Circuits

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"Squishy Circuits uses conductive and insulating play dough to teach the basics of electrical circuits, a perfect blend of play and learning!"

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Makey Makey

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"Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It's a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween."

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Osmo

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"Osmo is a unique gaming accessory for the iPad, iPhone, and Amazon Fire tablets, that enables digital and physical play at the same time."

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Cubelets

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Cubelets® Robot Blocks make it fast and easy to engage children in learning by building robots. There’s no wrong way to build with Cubelets, so it is easy to transform these blocks into brilliant bundles of robotic curiosity."

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Sphero Mini

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Little Robot Lots of Fun "Sphero Mini packs tons of fun into a tiny, app-enabled robotic ball."

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Harry Potter Wand

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"Learn to code. Make magic." Make magic on a screen, with a wave, flick, and twirl. Learn to code with 70+ creative challenges and games.

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Ozobots

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"Ozobot is a little toy robot that blends the physical and digital worlds — and te aches kids programming. Ozobot can identify lines, colors, and codes on both digital surfaces, such as an iPad, and physical surfaces"

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Hex Bug Nano

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These little critters are a great introduction to robotics and fun to race in mazes you can design.

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Kinetic Sand

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Kinetic Sand is the original magical, moldable and mesmerizing sand that never dries out!

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Spirograph

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Simply choose from the gears and wheels, put your paper in place, and create whirling, spiraling, mix and match patterns for a totally awesome image

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Wacky Wigglers

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Build a fun, motorized, crawly creature with the Gears! Gears! Gears! Wacky Wigglers!

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LEGO

Available in Builder's Room

Whether it is LEGO on our Lego Wall or building on the ground, KIP has over 15 pounds of LEGO fun!

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Magformers

Available in Builder's Room

High quality magnets that instantly connect are sure to spark curiosity and play time is creative, stimulating, and constructive. Building with MAGFORMERS engages mathematical and scientific thought, deductive reasoning, and requires use of spatial awareness

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Magna-Tiles

Available in Builder's Room

MagBuilders are designed to teach children STEM skills: building, geometry, mathematics and creativity. Children can acquire strong sense of color, geometrical shapes including 3D forms, numbers counts, magnetic polarities & architectural design

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