Edtech startup pushes hands-on STEAM learning
Philippine television, live in the studio with a kit on the desk.
News and press
What other people have written about us.
Twenty-six pieces, newest first, from a Chinese-language write-up of a student competition in 2021 to a Philippine television studio in 2026. Some we hold the cutting for but not a live link, and those are listed without one rather than pointed at a guess.
2025From running 3D printers 24/7 to winning ‘Nobel Prize for students’
A full page in the Sunday Times, on the printers that ran through the night and the fourteen people running the company now.
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2025"Nobel Prize for students": Singapore startup wins US$1 million in seed funding
Stick ’Em wins the Hult Prize ($1M USD) at the global finals in London.
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Stick ’Em organises the first Global Robotics Games
A competition built so schools can run it in weeks rather than months, with no playfield and no specialist equipment.
Code and Create in Indonesia
Teacher training and student workshops across Indonesian schools.
2025‘Potential is universal’
A short film shot in Singapore classrooms.
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Runner up in the Temasek Foundation Education Challenge
First runner-up in the Education Challenge.
Stick ’Em wins the Young Innovator Award at the World Summit Awards, Chile
Recognised among global digital innovations with social impact.
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Stick ’Em receives the 2024 Venture for Good Energize Grant from raiSE
Accredited social enterprise funding to grow the model.
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Awarded a certificate of recognition by Senior Minister Heng Swee Keat
Recognition for work in accessible STEAM education.
Stick ’Em is officially in Cambodia
Kits and training reach Cambodian classrooms.
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Named at the President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Awards
Named by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the award ceremony.
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Teachers across Brunei try the Stick ’Em robotics workshop
Chinese-language coverage of the same week of workshops in Brunei.
2023Making STEAM accessible to all
Brunei's national daily on the teacher workshop, with photographs from the room.
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A Stick ’Em build session for more than 100 girls with SheLovesTech
A workshop run with SheLovesTech.
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Stick ’Em in Africa
The first deployments in East Africa, including Kigezi High School in Uganda.
2022Robots made out of chopsticks among innovations on display as youth discuss climate action at summit
Stick ’Em builds on display as young people discuss climate action.
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A word from Singapore's Minister of Education at NTEL 2022
Stick ’Em at the National Technology in Education Learning symposium.
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SheLovesTech Global Conference 2022
A superhero build activity run at the global conference.
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Digital for Life Festival with President Halimah Yacob
Running builds at the national Digital for Life Festival.
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IMDA: Stick ’Em helps lessons to be fun and accessible
Featured in the Digital for Life programme.
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2021免洗筷设计成理工教学包，四学生春到河畔编程赛得两奖
The earliest press coverage, from the River Hongbao competition.
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Wefie with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
The winning RHB Hacks team, photographed by the Prime Minister.
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2021Students “forge brighter future” in entrepreneurship competition
Coverage of the team behind the chopstick robots.
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Students hit home with green and socially conscious business ideas
Winning RHB Hacks 2021, the first competition Stick ’Em ever won.
Presenting to Minister of State Low Yen Ling at seventeen
The finals at Mapletree Business City, and one of the first times anyone in government saw the kit.
Writing about Stick ’Em?
Email founders@stickem.sg and a person will answer. We can supply photographs, the kit itself, classroom footage, and an interview with Kai. If you need something by a deadline, say the deadline in the first line and we will tell you straight away whether we can make it.
Stick ’Em Private Limited, UEN 202216916C. Founded 16 September 2020, Singapore.