We are a team of scientists, artists, designers, engineers and educators who grew up tinkering, making, exploring, playing with building toys, and being curious. We like to build and have an impact in the world. And we love science.
We started Play Works Studio to design games that encourage children, especially girls, to discover a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. We believe that play should be equal and that girls and boys should be encouraged to play and learn together. Our first product is Robiis, a collectable robot gaming platform which supports many game styles while teaching the basics of programming to girls and boys ages 6 and up; children learn concepts such as loops and repeats, if statements and conditionals, functions and subroutines, recursion, etc. Players use a mobile app to program the robots and solve puzzles and challenges of various difficulties. The game boards are built with tiles and they can be arranged in countless different ways to build puzzles. Players learn important STEM skills, like logical, procedural, spatial and probabilistic reasoning, and they learn them in the context of solving problems collaboratively. Most importantly, they are having too much fun to even know they are learning!
We started Play Works Studio to design games that encourage children, especially girls, to discover a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. We believe that play should be equal and that girls and boys should be encouraged to play and learn together. Our first product is Robiis, a collectable robot gaming platform which supports many game styles while teaching the basics of programming to girls and boys ages 6 and up; children learn concepts such as loops and repeats, if statements and conditionals, functions and subroutines, recursion, etc. Players use a mobile app to program the robots and solve puzzles and challenges of various difficulties. The game boards are built with tiles and they can be arranged in countless different ways to build puzzles. Players learn important STEM skills, like logical, procedural, spatial and probabilistic reasoning, and they learn them in the context of solving problems collaboratively. Most importantly, they are having too much fun to even know they are learning!
Location: United States, Washington, Seattle
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2013