# Stick ’Em updates | Stick ’Em Source: https://stickem.sg/updates/ # Stick ’Em updates Classrooms, countries, competitions and product news, newest first. [Follow on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stickem.sg/) ## Where we have been ### 2026 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. 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. [About the workshop](https://stickem.sg/training/) 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. [Watch the recap video](https://youtu.be/gg5RKhQ0VNY) 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. [Read the story](https://stickem.sg/about/#story) 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. [The full story](https://stickem.sg/governments/#sustain) 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. ## Follow along Classroom photos go up on Instagram first, usually the same week. The newsletter is one email a term. [Follow on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stickem.sg/) [See the gallery](https://stickem.sg/gallery/) [News and press](https://stickem.sg/press/)