As the library media specialist at Avail Academy in Edina, Minnesota, Karen Christensson has been utilizing Cubelets in her makerspace for three years. During each day’s forty-five minute libra...
Barbie Atkinson has been using Cubelets for four years in her role as media clerk for Park Hill Elementary in Derby, Kansas. As an educator, she enjoys activities with students of all ages throug...
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We think about Cubelets in a lot of different ways, but when we were inventing them back in the mid 2000s at Carnegie Mellon, I thought of them mostly as a tangible, three-dimensional form of cel...
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It’s the day after Thanksgiving in the USA, and after a holiday hopefully filled with family, gratitude, and a good meal, it feels like the country descends into a tasteless consumerist chaos t...
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Kasey Herzberg is the Executive Director of the Challenger Learning Center of Minnesota, a nonprofit working to bring a unique and powerful STEM education center to the state. Her mission is to b...
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Across the street from Modular Robotics in Boulder is an industrial air and gas supply store. They’ve got a sign out front with reconfigurable letters and for about three years, it said, “BaL...
Happy New Year from Modular Robotics! Mary here, the new Educational Community Manager on the Modular Robotics team. I’m so excited to join this vibrant community, and I feel endlessly gratef...
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Like many companies, Modular Robotics has been experiencing stock shortages and shipping delays for the past several months. We know that many of you are looking to get your hands on Cubelets, bu...
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There’s a quirk in the way our brains work. If we can label something with a word, we tend to think we understand it. If you want to check yourself, pick an object like a zipper, a feather, or ...
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If you want to become a better thinker, it’s time to get curious about complexity. Suppose for a moment that you have the wrong definition of a word. In this post, we would like to suggest that...