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Broken Stuffed Animals Get “Surgery” to Teach Kids About Organ Donors

Broken Stuffed Animals Get “Surgery” to Teach Kids About Organ Donors

Of the 14,000 people in Japan who need transplants, 300 receive them each year. To inspire organ donors, Second Life Toys is using plushies.

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Make It for Mom: Easy Wood Grain Silhouette Portrait

Make It for Mom: Easy Wood Grain Silhouette Portrait

What else could be more thoughtful than a DIY gift for mom featuring her darling children in a silhouette portrait? This is a simple and effective project that even the least of the handy dads out there can make in time for Mother’s Day this weekend. All you need is a camera (even your phone will do), […]

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Teaching kids to program with wooden blocks

Teaching kids to program with wooden blocks

How do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience? How do you teach programming to children that can yet read or write?

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Kids, Engineering, and the Citizens of City X

Kids, Engineering, and the Citizens of City X

The City X Project teaches problem solving using 3D printing by way of a fictional city on a distant planet.

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