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‘Nobel Prize for students’: Singapore startup wins US$1 million in seed funding after clinching top award

The annual Hult Prize is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize for students”, with more than 200,000 participants from 130 countries and nearly 2,000 universities, generating 15,000 startup ideas.

Hult Prize told CNA on Monday that this is the first time a Singapore team has won the global finals.

Code & Create in Indonesia!

We conducted a 100 train-the-trainer workshop for educators and leaders from 20+ schools in the Jakarta/Tangerang region! Participants experienced the Stick ‘Em magic within a short 3 hours, building crazy robots and learning how they could implement STEAM in their classrooms

Stick ‘Em organises first ever Global Robotics Games!

In 2024, 33 teams from 6 countries participated in the Global Robotics Games: Water Dispatch by Stick ‘Em. GRG, organised by Developing Innovative Youth (DIY) and DuckLearning. Stay tuned for the 2025 challenge!

Runner Up in Temasek Foundation Education Challenge

The challenge attracted more than 250 applications across over 60 countries. Following a rigorous selection process, the top ten finalists were invited to pitch their innovative solutions live at EduTech Asia to a judging panel comprising expert review panellists and education experts.

Awarded certificate of recognition by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat

Stick ‘Em was awarded a certificate of social impact for our work with underprivileged kids in Bedok. For the past 3 years we’ve been conducting free STEAM workshops, open to all backgrounds.

Stick ‘Em is officially in Cambodia!

It’s official! We have a local team in Cambodia training teachers and reaching out to schools. Check out their Instagram!

President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Awards 2023 Finalists

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam: “Adam Huh Dam and Chong Ing Kai, who started when they were students. They made simple and affordable robotic kits that can be introduced in our schools, and in the developing countries around us too.”

Stick ‘Em receives 2024 Venture4Good Energize Grant by raiSE

VentureForGood (VFG) EnergiSE supports pre-seed to early stage startups to create human-centered social impact in Singapore with up to $50,000 in grant funding.

Stick ‘Em Wins Young Innovator Award at the World Summit Awards, Chile

The WSA Young Innovators is a special recognition within the World Summit Awards framework, dedicated to young social entrepreneurs under 26 years of age who use digital innovations to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

Empowering 100+ Girls in STEM with Stick ‘Em

In collaboration with SheLovesTech, we conducted an introduction to STEM workshop! The girls were tasked to design werable fashion along the theme of metamorphosis and built super cool costumes!

Stick ‘Em in Africa!

Thanks to our local partner Donald, we managed to send some kits over to Kampala, Uganda. After just 3 hours of virtual training, the teachers were able to run a pilot class using Stick ‘Em Academy’s self guided curriculum

SheLovesTech Global Conference 2022

50 girls were tasked to build something a Superhero would wear to a Fashion Show last week, check out what they built in just 1 hour! We saw Giant shields, rubber band shooters and wolverine claws, with one team even pivoting to supervillains!

A Word from Singapore’s Minister Of Education @NTEL 2022

“We must leverage technology to transform the way we teach, learn and connect with the world. The quality of our education system depends on quality teachers, supported and enabled by technology to bring out the best in our students.”

Chopstick Robots at the UNDP Summit

Straits Times: The robots are the pride and joy of local youth start-up Stick ‘Em, a 10-member team that aims to bring robotics to children at one-tenth the cost of traditional robotics kits.

Digital for Life Festival with President Halimah Yacob

Mdm President & IMDA CEO try their hands at Stick ‘Em during the Digital for Life Festival to bring together Singaporeans to embrace digital learning as a lifelong pursuit.

IMDA: Stick ‘Em helps lessons to be fun and accessible

Students from Rulang Primary using Stick ‘Em, a STEM assembly kit, to build robots with chopsticks to build robots. This helps them understand design-thinking concepts and exercise creative problem solving in a simple and fun way.

Wefie with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

PM Lee: A wefie with the one of the winning RHB Hacks teams, Stick’Em SG. Using 3D-printed connectors and the extra disposable chopsticks you get from deliveries, they’ve designed a STEM education kit to encourage creative problem solving and hands-on learning among kids. The model aeroplane on the top right was built with this kit.