Edtech startup pushes hands-on STEAM learning
Live in the studio on Philippine television, talking about hands-on STEAM learning.
Hult Prize global finals, Tate Modern, LondonIn the news
2025‘Potential is universal’
A short film about Stick ’Em, shot in Singapore classrooms.
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2025From running 3D printers 24/7 to winning ‘Nobel Prize for students’
A full-page feature on our early days and the team behind Stick ’Em today.
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Prime Minister Lawrence Wong congratulates Stick ’Em on the Hult Prize
After the Hult Prize win, the Prime Minister congratulated Kai on Facebook, with a photo of the two of them as he tried the connectors himself.
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2026At Stick ’Em, chopsticks are rewiring STEAM education
The Peak’s Next Gen series, on why the real test for Stick ’Em is inside public-school systems, and why it grows by training teachers rather than sending in trainers.
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2026From Chopsticks to $1M: The Student Startup That Changed Edtech
A 15-minute EO Asia documentary on how a box of takeaway chopsticks became a classroom robotics kit, and what it took to win the Hult Prize ($1M USD).
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2026How a 17-year-old Singaporean built a million-dollar startup
On one of Singapore’s most popular podcasts, Kai tells how he started Stick ’Em in secondary school, how a bit of mischief turned into a classroom kit, and how it went from local schools to rural Uganda. Episode 491.
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2025Chopstick robot building kit delighting underfunded classes around the world
How a kit of chopsticks and connectors reaches classrooms that could not afford STEAM equipment.
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2025‘We want every child to bring their ideas to life,’ say Stick ’Em co-founders
An ST Signature Series feature on the co-founders, on purpose being about lifting others.
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2025S’pore startup bags US$1M in seed funding after winning ‘Nobel Prize for students’
Vulcan Post on the Hult Prize win.
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2025"Nobel Prize for students": Singapore startup wins US$1 million in seed funding
Stick ’Em wins the Hult Prize ($1M USD) at the global finals in London.
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Stick ’Em organises the first Global Robotics Games
Our first robotics competition, open to schools around the world.
Code and Create in Indonesia
Teacher training and student workshops across Indonesian schools.
Runner up in the Temasek Foundation Education Challenge
First runner-up in the 2024 Education Challenge.
Stick ’Em wins the Young Innovator Award at the World Summit Awards, Chile
Recognised among global digital innovations with social impact.
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Stick ’Em receives the 2024 Venture for Good Energize Grant from raiSE
A grant from raiSE to help us reach more schools.
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Awarded a certificate of recognition by Senior Minister Heng Swee Keat
Recognition for work in accessible STEAM education.
Stick ’Em is officially in Cambodia
Our kits and teacher training arrive in Cambodian classrooms.
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Named at the President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Awards
Named by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the award ceremony.
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Teachers across Brunei try the Stick ’Em robotics workshop
Chinese-language coverage of our teacher workshops in Brunei.
2023Making STEAM accessible to all
Brunei’s national newspaper covers our teacher workshop.
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A Stick ’Em build session for more than 100 girls with SheLovesTech
A hands-on build session for more than 100 girls.
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Stick ’Em in Africa
Our first schools in East Africa, including Kigezi High School in Uganda.
2022Robots made out of chopsticks among innovations on display as youth discuss climate action at summit
Our chopstick builds on display at a youth summit on climate action.
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A word from Singapore's Minister of Education at NTEL 2022
Stick ’Em at the National Technology in Education Learning symposium.
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SheLovesTech Global Conference 2022
A superhero build activity at the SheLovesTech global conference.
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Digital for Life Festival with President Halimah Yacob
Hands-on builds at the national Digital for Life Festival.
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IMDA: Stick ’Em helps lessons to be fun and accessible
Featured in the Digital for Life programme.
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2021More than just hyperactive kids: S’poreans with ADHD share lesser known aspects of disorder
Kai on ADHD, hyperfocus and how it helped him build Stick ’Em.
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2021免洗筷设计成理工教学包，四学生春到河畔编程赛得两奖
Our very first press coverage, after the River Hongbao competition.
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Wefie with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
The RHB Hacks winning team, in a wefie with the Prime Minister.
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2021Students “forge brighter future” in entrepreneurship competition
A feature on the students behind the chopstick robots.
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Students hit home with green and socially conscious business ideas
Winning RHB Hacks 2021, our first ever competition win.
Presenting to Minister of State Low Yen Ling at seventeen
Presenting at the finals at Mapletree Business City, one of the first times the kit was shown to government.
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