Everything we get asked.

Bamboo chopsticks and 3D-printed connectors, which is the frame, plus an electronic board with motors, which is what makes it move. Students build the structure themselves rather than clicking together parts that were already the right shape. A Sensor Kit adds ultrasonic, light, temperature, humidity and gyroscope sensors and an LCD screen, and is bought separately.

A Robotics Kit is one student kit: the connector kit and the electronic kit together, and it is the complete buildable robot. A Classroom Set is ten Robotics Kits in one bin, which covers up to forty students in groups of two to four. A Sensor Kit is the expansion, sold separately. This is the thing people most often trip on, usually because the expansion kit is called an extension kit somewhere else, so if something looks missing from your order it is worth checking this first.

Cars, cranes, cable cars, catapults, drawing machines, dragon boats, gliders, humanoid robots, hydroponic farms. One Classroom Set holds enough chopsticks and connectors for hundreds of different builds, and the only other things you need are everyday materials: cardboard, string, bottles, tape.

For the building, no. Chopsticks grip into tapered sockets by friction, with no glue, no screws, no battery and no app, and that is most of a lesson. To make a build move you need the electronic board, a USB power bank and a device to control it from, so a flat battery costs a school the robotics part of the lesson rather than the whole lesson.

Laptops or Chromebooks running Chrome or Edge, which reach control.stickem.sg over Bluetooth with nothing to install. On iPads you need the Stick ’Em Control app from the App Store instead, because Safari cannot do Web Bluetooth. Teachers only need one device between a group of three or four, plus the projector for whoever is leading.

No. A build moves from a simple control app, and that is where most classes stop. Coding is there for the classes that want to go further, and so is vibe coding a web app to drive the thing they built, but neither is a prerequisite for a first lesson.

Two to three years in ordinary classroom use. Chopsticks are consumable by design and get replaced roughly once a year, which is what keeps the running cost low. Connectors and boards last much longer. Write to us with your order and we will sort out replacements.

It is used in mainstream classrooms with a wide ability range and in special education settings, mostly because there is no single right answer to build towards and no reading load to get past. The build is physical and forgiving: a piece that does not fit comes apart again. The part that needs the most care is fine motor strength, which is also why we do not recommend it below seven.

The platform is in English. Lesson materials exist in other languages where a partner has made them: there is a Vietnamese lesson set, and printed Bahasa Indonesia lesson packs. Tell us what you need and we will tell you honestly whether it exists yet.

Yes, and most of the teachers who run it had not either. The workshop is three hours and takes a teacher from never having seen the kit to planning their own lesson. The sentence we hear most from teachers afterwards is some version of: it changed my idea of what robotics is into something I can actually do.

The lessons arrive written. Each one has slides, a materials list, the build steps and the questions to ask, so the preparation is reading it. We will not pretend planning time is a solved problem: teachers rate the workshop 4.67 out of 5 and their own confidence to plan a lesson afterwards 3.96. That gap is exactly why the lesson library exists and why it keeps growing.

Science, Mathematics, Languages, Art, Social Studies, Geography, character education. A catapult is an angles lesson, a coastal barrier is a geography lesson, a build a student has to pitch is a language lesson. The Academy is organised by subject rather than by robot for exactly this reason.

A one-hour lesson works and a basic build finishes inside one session. Two hours is more comfortable if you want the full arc of building, testing and improving. Workshops we run range from one and a half to five hours depending on what a school wants out of them.

Nine and up works independently. Seven to nine works with a teacher or parent nearby. Below seven we do not recommend it, and we will say so rather than sell you one, because small hands cannot push a chopstick into a socket hard enough. At the other end the same kit is used in polytechnics and universities.

Groups of two to four around one kit, with roles inside the group, is what almost every classroom settles on. A parts count at the start and end of the lesson saves an argument later. For younger classes a second adult in the room makes a real difference.

They will, and that is the lesson. Chopsticks and connectors come apart and go back together, which is why the same set survives a class that takes everything to pieces and why failing at something is cheap here.

Yes. Six lessons are free at all times with no account, and Guest Mode lets you walk around the Academy and see how a lesson is written before you decide anything.

A Classroom Set starts at S$1,000 and covers up to forty students, which is about a tenth of what conventional classroom robotics costs. An individual Robotics Kit starts at S$100 and a Sensor Kit at S$35. A small pilot, which is two sets, a year of Academy access for eighty students and a teacher workshop, starts at S$5,940. Those are starting points: tell us how many classrooms and which term and we will send you a real quote.

Most schools start with a pilot: one or two Classroom Sets, Academy access for a cohort, and one teacher workshop. That is enough to run a full term and decide on what you actually saw rather than on a demonstration. Ask for a pilot quote and we will size it to your school.

The hardware is a one-off and the Academy is a yearly subscription, and they are separate on purpose so a school can buy one without the other. Buying a kit gives you the six free lessons; the full library, the customised lessons and the staff workshop come with a school subscription. We would rather say that plainly than have you find it out after the purchase order.

Yes. We issue a dated quotation, you raise a purchase order, and we invoice on delivery. Singapore government schools can e-invoice through Vendors@Gov. We can split a quotation into hardware, training and Academy so each sits in the right budget line, and we can leave the issuing date as to be confirmed until your funds are released, which is what most Applied Learning Programme budgets need in January.

In Singapore, usually not. We are the sole distributor of Stick ’Em here, and for a direct purchase above the threshold we will write you a sole distributor declaration letter for your finance office.

Multi-set and pilot bundles bring the per-set cost down, and delivery inside Singapore is often waived. Charity, NGO and sponsorship requests are looked at one at a time and sometimes yes. Tell us the number of classrooms and the term.

Twelve to fourteen days for Singapore, tracked. International depends on the destination and we confirm it in the quote. Orders sometimes arrive as two parcels, because a Robotics Kit and a Sensor Kit can ship separately; that is normal and not a missing item.

To many countries, yes, and ASEAN routes carry no tariff on educational goods of this kind. We cannot currently sell to individuals in the European Union, which is a customs and compliance problem at our end rather than yours, and we would rather you read that here than find it at checkout. Schools and distributors outside the EU should write to us and we will tell you what is possible from where you are.

Write to founders@stickem.sg with your order and, if it is a board, the number printed on it. A good proportion of boards that look dead are a motor in the wrong port, which takes a minute to fix in the control app, and we will tell you if that is what it is. Genuine faults get replaced.

Not for the six free lessons or for Guest Mode, which need no account at all. A paid subscription issues a school or individual access code that teachers and students use, with an expiry date.

Write to founders@stickem.sg and we will send it. Codes are still issued by a person rather than automatically, which means they arrive in hours rather than instantly and occasionally get missed. It is on our list to fix and it is not fixed yet.

No. Anyone can use Guest Mode, and the introductory lessons at the top are written for someone opening the box for the first time, teacher or not.

The building works with nothing connected. The Academy is a website, so the teacher needs a connection to open a lesson, though a lesson opened at the start of a period keeps working. The control app needs no internet once loaded, only Bluetooth. Schools on a filtered network should whitelist academy.stickem.sg and control.stickem.sg before the first lesson.

Often, yes. Ask, and if the topic is one several schools want it goes into the library for everyone. Schools on a full subscription get lessons customised to their own programme as part of it.

It already has been. Brunei's Ministry of Education runs it nationally through the STEP Centre, the Philippines runs with DOST-SEI and the Philippine Science High School System, and about one in five Singapore Ministry of Education schools use it. The model is built to be handed over: a ministry runs the training itself after we have trained the trainers.

Lessons are built around Singapore's 21st Century Competencies framework and mapped across more than a hundred national frameworks. In the Philippines we mapped 110 Academy lessons to the DepEd MATATAG curriculum so a teacher does not have to make the link themselves. If your framework is not covered yet, mapping it is work we do rather than work you do.

One Classroom Set serves up to forty students and lasts two to three years. In the Brunei costing that worked out at roughly two dollars per student per year across the life of the set, which is less than a school exercise book. We will do the same arithmetic for your numbers and show our working.

Not yet, and we will not claim otherwise. What exists today is satisfaction and readiness data: 4.67 out of 5 across 658 teachers on the Level 2 workshop, 97 percent rating it four or five, and 29 percent of those teachers asking for a Classroom Set unprompted. There is no independent controlled efficacy study, which is the honest gap in our evidence and the thing we are working to close. If your process needs an evidence tier, tell us which one and we will tell you where we actually stand.

That is the whole design. One three-hour workshop makes a teacher self-sufficient enough to run lessons and to train a colleague. In Uganda a teacher was trained over a video call, set up a club with no further contact from us, and the school ranked first in the country half a year later. Nobody from Stick ’Em was in the room.

Yes. A no-cost pilot workshop is usually how a ministry conversation starts, and several of our government partnerships began exactly that way. Ministry-facing work is framed non-commercially where procurement rules require it.

Building a robot collects nothing. The Academy holds a teacher account and a class access code, and that is the extent of it: no student names are required to run a lesson, and students reach lessons through a school code rather than individual accounts. If your ministry has a data protection review, send it and we will answer it properly.

Yes, and we are actively looking for partners. Most partnerships start with a small pilot in a handful of schools so both sides can see how it goes before anyone commits to volume. Tell us the market, the schools you already reach and how you would deliver teacher training, and we will come back with terms.

Not up front, and we would rather say that now than three calls in. We work non-exclusively, and in most of our markets more than one partner operates. What we do give is account-level exclusivity, so the schools you sign are locked to you, plus a head start in a new market. Exclusivity is a conversation once a partner is operating at real scale.

Distributor pricing works in bands by order size, with a better band for the first few months after signing so a new partner is not penalised for starting small. You set your own selling price in your market. The detail belongs in a conversation rather than on a web page, because it depends on volume, territory and what you are taking on.

Deliver the teacher training. That is the one thing we will not compromise on, because a kit without a trained teacher sits in a cupboard and the school never orders again. We train your trainers, give you the materials and support the first sessions. After that the training is yours to run.

No. Co-branding, yes. Stick ’Em being designed and made in Singapore is part of what schools are buying, and removing the name removes the reason.

Yes, for serious conversations. Tell us where to send it. International sample shipping can be slow, so ask early rather than the week before your demonstration.

Around two hundred individual kits for a standing arrangement, and we flex well below that for a committed pilot. A pilot is usually the right first step anyway.