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In recent years, a host of new science-themed toys targeting girls has arisen from companies large and small. GoldieBlox, the brainchild of a Stanford University engineer named Debbie Sterling, ...
Science toys for girls are often, well, terrible. While boys get cool explosions and slime, girls get “Beauty Spa Lab” and “Perfect Perfume Lab.” And everything is always, as a rule, pink.
From left, Bettina Chen, Jennifer Kessler and Alice Brooks are the makers of Roominate, a fully customizable toy house girls build themselves with circuitry, photographed at their offices at the ...
For decades, toy makers believed the industry gospel: Boys want to build things; girls want to play princess. But now, female chief executives are leading huge corporations, including Yahoo Inc ...
As a reaction to consumer demands (and one particularly viral tweet), Target has recently removed gender labels from the toy aisles. There is no longer a blue boys' aisle overflowing with trucks ...
Finally, Ochoa’s favorite science toys are the ones that can be used again and again. That is to say, ones that invite multiple ways for kids to interact or that present more complex problems to ...
With their LInkitz toy for girls, veterans of MIT and Intel intend to get even a 4-year-old excited about engineering. For Lyssa Neel, a startup world veteran and only the 10th woman to earn a PhD ...
She applauds the mission of GoldieBlox to engage girls with science and math. But she sees limits to the very idea of STEM toys made especially for girls. “It’s not just what they play with ...
Science Girls With Toys This is what real scientists look like. By Kate Clancy. May 18, 2015 5:23 PM. ... two girls with toys, two girls with big questions about the world, ...