With appeal to both boys and girls, a screen-free format and a concept that sneakily teaches coding and STEM skills while being silly with the family, Robot Turtles proved a perfect fit with ...

Now on Kickstarter, Robot Turtles is a new board game designed by a Google executive that teaches kids who can’t even read the logic of programming. Five months ago, Dan Shapiro, the CEO of Google ...

Dan Shapiro has made his mark as a Seattle software entrepreneur, creating startups such as Ontela and Sparkbuy. Now, Shapiro, who is on leave from Google, is turning his attention to board games.

There are plenty of online resources aimed at teaching kids coding but here’s an offline take that uses old school gamification to get kids engaged and learning programming principles while they’re ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Molly Brown on Dec 15, 2014 at 10:32 am December 15, 2014 at 12:06 ...

A game designed to encourage 3 year olds to code has debuted at the 2014 International American Toy Fair after becoming the most-funded board game in the history of Kickstarter. Robot Turtles smashed ...

In our "Weekly Innovation" blog series, we explore an interesting idea, design or product that you may not have heard of yet. Do you have an innovation to share? Use this quick form. These days, the ...

If you know any grade-school kids who are learning computer programming, chances are they’re doing it with a turtle. Not a real turtle, mind you, but a turtle-shaped sprite on a computer screen. It ...

Almost 50 years ago, four scientists developed a programming language for children, known as LOGO. And around 25 years ago, I was using that language to drive a small triangular cursor—the ...