July 2026
A family workshop at Tanglin Community Club
Singapore
An afternoon of building for families at a community club. One team built a cart armed with paper bombs.
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2026
June 2026
Two whole-staff workshops in a month
Singapore
All 161 staff of South View Primary School spent an afternoon building together, and 70 teachers at Cantonment Primary School designed hands-on activities for their own subjects.
April and May 2026
6 workshops in 8 days across Brunei
Brunei
A nationwide tour with the Ministry of Education through the STEP Centre: 120 teachers, 60 school leaders, a School Leaders Dialogue and a meeting at Ministry HQ. 75+ schools requested Stick ’Em afterwards. Brunei teachers gave the highest workshop scores we have recorded in any country.
April 2026
Stick ’Em on One News, Manila
Manila
Live in the studio with a kit on the desk. Our partner TheChalkboard brings Stick ’Em into public schools across the Philippines.
April 2026
Racing robots at the VIVITA Punggol launch
Singapore
Families cheered their robots across the finish line at the opening of VIVITA’s new space in Punggol.
March 2026
A faculty workshop at the University of Santo Tomas
Manila, the Philippines
We spent a week in Manila running Stick ’Em for faculty at the University of Santo Tomas, one of the oldest universities in Asia and one of the largest teacher-education institutions in the country.
2025
November 2025
The Global Robotics Games finals in Vietnam
Vietnam
Teams raced their Stick ’Em robots on the maze table at the Vietnam finals, three months after the national round in Thailand.
November 2025
BPK Penabur Inter-School Competition
Jakarta, Indonesia
An inter-school robotics competition across BPK Penabur, one of Indonesia’s largest school networks. Every team built a robot with one goal: collect as much trash as possible.
November 2025
The Global Robotics Games 2025
One World International School, Singapore
About 33 primary and secondary teams from 6 countries and territories came to Singapore for the global final, after qualifying rounds in Thailand, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Their surprise mission was about sharing resources fairly, inspired by UN Sustainable Development Goal 1.
October 2025
Minister for Education Desmond Lee tries Stick ’Em
Singapore
The Minister for Education met the Stick ’Em team at a community club event.
September 2025
Stick ’Em wins the Hult Prize
Tate Modern, London
US$1 million in seed funding at the global finals at Tate Modern, London, from 15,000 entries across 133 countries. The first Singapore team to win. Read Stick ’Em’s full story on the About page.
September 2025
Our booth at the CDAC event got a visit from Prime Minister Lawrence Wong!
Singapore
Nine days after the Hult Prize, at a CDAC event, the Prime Minister built a big chopstick cube with the children.
August 2025
The Global Robotics Games Thailand National Round
Bangkok, Thailand
The first Global Robotics Games round in Thailand, run with ICS Robotics Club. Teams learnt the kit in the morning and solved the national challenge in the afternoon, and the champions won a sponsored place at the global final in Singapore.
May 2025
We trained 700 teachers in a single day
Indonesia
BPK Penabur trained 700 teachers in 2 sessions for 20 schools. Bogor trained 225 people from 6 schools. Several Indonesian schools now run regional trainings for neighbouring schools.
May 2025
Robotics for a Better World 2025
Rulang Primary School, Singapore
33 primary and secondary teams spent one day researching, prototyping and presenting robots for their communities, from delivery robots to ocean clean-up, in a challenge run with Rulang Primary School.
2024
2024
Kigezi High School ranks first in Uganda
Uganda
One teacher was trained over a video call and the school ran its own coding and robotics club. A year later it ranked first in the country.
November 2024
Our first international competition: the Global Robotics Games 2024
Science Centre Singapore
33 teams from 6 countries built robots in a single day to deliver water to three villages at different heights, a challenge about access to clean water.
2024
Stick ’Em at a floating village school in Semporna
Semporna, Malaysia
With Borneo Komrads, at a school for stateless children built over the water, with no reliable internet and no trained STEAM teachers.
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