From PC Magazine:
Subscription boxes have been landing on the doorsteps of geeks, fashionistas, foodies, and bookworms for nearly a decade. And now, kids aged 3 to 13 years old can receive recurring deliveries of niche products, too.
First spotted by Engadget, Amazon this week introduced the STEM Club Toy Subscription—a monthly program that delivers “hand-picked, high-quality” science, technology, engineering, and math knickknacks once a month.
The box costs $19.99 per month (plus tax), and promises a mix of age-appropriate STEM products “from robotics to natural sciences” that aim to encourage kids to learn through play. Available in three age ranges, folks can expect “engaging toys” like a math playbox (3-4), scientific explorer kit (5-7), or chemistry set (8-13).
“Amazon editors work closely with smart and trusted brands we love to handpick the best STEM toys,” the company website said. “From programmable robots to rockin’ crystal kits … to cool arithmetic toys, STEM Club will challenge and inspire while expanding young minds through play.”
Link to the rest at PC Magazine
Here’s a link to the STEM subscription page
Get them for ALL your children, and get your children ready for the modern world.
Even if they never solve an equation as an adult, or build a robot, their world will be improved by having science not be magic.
Grandchildren, too, Alicia – for us older folks.
Yay!
Things of Science reborn!
I cut my teeth on those.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_of_Science
Sadly, it ended soon afterwards.
Nice move.
We desperately need more STEMs in this country.
I was born too early …
No, you weren’t. I had a subscription to STEM toys when I was a kid. Came from a company in San Antonio. Once a month. Found it on the back of a comic book.
They came in blue boxes?
http://ecg.mit.edu/george/tos/
I got tons of mileage out of the cardboard-tube optics lab. Especially the telescope and surveyors scope.
Felix, I don’t recall that the package was blue, but I don’t think so. I recall the electronics issue included a lot of hollow state parts and a soldering iron. Built a wheatstone bridge, an AM radio, and some other cool stuff. The nuclear module included a bag of dirt that contained a minuscule amount of uranium dioxide and a radiometer. (The radiometer was really cool.)
The electronics stayed with me. I went back to it again and again. The geology module, not so much. Mom liked it because every time a box arrived I was occupied and out of mischief for days.
Yup. I got the same nuclear kit.
And I found them through their ad in the back of a DC Comic.
The analog computer kit came in handy for science fair; I replaced the linear resistance coils with potentiometers and calibrated them to match.
Fun stuff.
Can’t say it got me interested in science cause I was born interested in SF and related fields. I’m pretty sure it’s genetic from my father’s side.