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The first stage of Arts Council England's capital programme was announced today, with applicants now having 18 months to put forward applications for phase two. The money from the capital programme is focused on the refurbishment or extension of existing arts buildings and the replacement of critical equipment.
Arts Council England proposes to invest just over £114 million in this first round of the fund, its first new capital investment in nine years.
Projects through to phase two include: the refurbishment of the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery to bring them up to the international standard of the Royal Festival Hall; work to transform the auditorium, front and backstage areas of Chichester Festival Theatre; and extensions to Embrace Arts at the Richard Attenborough Centre in Leicester and the Square Chapel in Halifax.
Successful applications also involve the development of 40 affordable artist studios at High House Production Park in Thurrock, a new home for Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre Company in Manchester, and a new space for South East Dance in Brighton.
Tony Hall, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House, said in response to the announcement, "We are hugely grateful that Arts Council England has put us forward to Stage Two of their capital funding programme. Not surprisingly after 13 years since the redevelopment stage equipment, plant and infrastructure are beginning to go wrong, break down and wear out. This money will not be spent on chandeliers and red carpets but on things that make the building function properly and to full capacity in the most energy efficient way. So, we are looking at chillers, stage lifts, stage wagons, roof leaks, stage curtain mechanisms, stage and front of house lighting, overhauling of some of the seating, in fact a huge long list of vital stuff that keeps this building functioning safely and effectively. Being able to draw on a special capital fund to make these essential improvements means that we can continue to invest in our art forms and our programme of education."


text: Share: September 28, 2008 | by Lori Quillen Education Teacher training can help infuse classrooms with current scientific thinking. When teachers are confident and engaged in new concepts, students benefit. With this in mind, the Cary Institute's Ecosystem Literacy Initiative recently launched a Summer Institute for Teachers. It was created to provide free professional development to K-12 teachers - many drawn from our region. The week-long sessions immersed participants in the latest thinking about ecosystems.In addition to exposure to the Cary Institute's scientific staff, participants were given the opportunity to strengthen their analytical skills and learn methods of integrating ecosystem concepts into their lesson plans. The training took place in July at the Cary Institute's 2,000-acre campus in Millbrook and nearby field sites.Twenty-seven teachers took part in the pilot effort, with attendees drawn from schools throughout Southern New York, including Dutchess County, Ulster County, Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens. Teachers were able to use the experience to qualify for professional development credits. Several attended as part of the Tidal Marsh Research Project, run by Stuart E.G. Findlay, Ph.D., who provided additional field training.Two Summer Institute sessions were offered. The first, led by Cary Institute educator Cornelia Harris, was tailored to high school and middle school teachers. Using curricula she helped develop for the Changing Hudson Project, Harris provided participants with a framework for teaching the fundamentals of ecosystem ecology.Each day, teachers interacted with Cary Institute scientists and engaged in experiments that could be replicated in the classroom. A daylong field trip on the Hudson River helped reinforce lessons about how human activities have altered the river's ecosystem."Our goal was to help participants teach ecosystem concepts using the Hudson River and its watershed. This included increasing teachers' confidence in analyzing river data and giving them access to current information about the river's basic ecology," Harris said.Elementary school teachers were the focus of the second session, led by Cary Institute educator Kim Notin. Using water budgets and food webs, K-5 teachers honed their ability to teach young learners about ecosystems. Hands-on activities included calculating carbon footprints, documenting food chains, creating a solar oven, and using farms and homes to understand ecosystem connections.Each teacher crafted an ecosystem lesson plan for the upcoming school year. This fall, classroom visits by Cary Institute educators will help ensure new concepts are successfully integrated into instruction. After-school teacher workshops, offered throughout the school year, will further strengthen concepts and techniques learned over the summer. So far, the prognosis for classroom application is good."Knowledge that I gained during the Summer Institute is already enriching my classroom. When teaching about the ecological impact of invasive species, I can draw on local examples and exciting facts about the Hudson River. Undoubtedly, this makes lessons more engaging to my students," said participant Jon Dolan, an environmental science teacher at Dover High School in Dover Plains.Based on the success of this year's program, a Summer Institute is being planned for 2009. In the meantime, interested teachers are encouraged to join in the discussion at the Teaching Ecosystem Literacy website. Moderated by Cary Institute educators, it is a forum for sharing lesson plans, posting grant opportunities, and keeping in touch with like-minded colleagues.The next time you are washing your hands with anti-bacterial soap, consider all of the things a microbe may have done for you today. In their absence, plants would not grow, food would be scarce and the world would be filled with waste and garbage. Share: Feature Institute helps teachers deepen their knowledge of ecosystems › September 28, 2008

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I don't whether to laugh or cry, but word coming out of Sony's behind-closed-doors Destination PlayStation event has it that a LittleBigPlanet kart racing game is in development.
Either somebody at Sony thinks it's still 2005, or this is a very public admission that nobody has ever really cared about ModNation Racers. Then again, it could be both.
Apparently the game will be Move-compatible and will also display in 3D, if you can manage that.
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A group of American and Filipino biologists have discovered seven previously unknown species of mammals in the Philippines, increasing the number of native mammals known from Luzon Island (excluding bats) from 42 to 49 (17 percent).
The formal descriptions of the seven species, all of which are members of the genus Apomys, were published on 20 May in Fieldiana, the peer-reviewed journal of The Field Museum, where the project is based. The nine co-authors included biologists from the University of the Philippines, the Philippine National Museum, Conservation International-Philippines, Utah Museum of Natural History, and Florida State University.
"These animals are part of the rich biological heritage of the Philippines", said Dr. Theresa Mundita Lim, Director of the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau, Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). "The forests where they live are crucial watershed areas for Manila and many other cities. Protecting their mountain forest habitat is good for them and for people." The DENR is a collaborator of the project, providing assistance at field sites and co-organizing conferences on wildlife and conservation.
All of the species are forest mice, and each species lives only in a small part of Luzon. According to Dr. Lawrence Heaney from The Field Museum, project leader and lead author of the publication, "These are wonderful little mice that live in forested regions high in the mountains. Although they are often abundant, they actively avoid humans and rarely cause any harm. They prefer to eat earthworms and seeds on the forest floor."
Two of the new species live only in the Zambales Mountains (on Mt. Tapulao), two live only on Mt. Banahaw (south of Manila), two only in the Mingan Mountains of Aurora Province, and one lives only in the Sierra Madre of northeastern Luzon.
"It is extraordinary that so many new species of mammals remain to be discovered in the Philippines," according to Danilo Balete, leader of the project's field team. "In the past 10 years we've published formal descriptions of 10 other species, and other biologists have described five more. And we are nowhere close to the end of our discoveries. The Philippines may have the greatest concentration of unique species of animals of any country in the world."
Dr. Scott Steppan, co-author and head of the laboratory at Florida State University where the DNA portion of the study was conducted, said, "The Philippines is an ideal place to study the evolution of animal diversity, even better than the famous Galapagos Islands. These animals have been evolving in the Philippine archipelago for millions of years."
Mr. Romeo Trono, Country Executive Director for Conservation International - Philippines, said, "Protecting land and marine resources is key to maintaining healthy ecosystems which deliver ecosystem services such as food, clean water, health, tourism and cultural benefits and stable climate which are vital to the very survival of every Filipino. Although small in size, these little animals are part of our biodiversity which forms the basic foundation of healthy ecosystems."
M. Josefa Veluz, biologist at the Philippine National Museum and co-author of the study, pointed out that the new species from the Sierra Madre and Mt. Banahaw live within protected areas, but those from the Mingan Mountains and Zambales do not. Logging, expansion of agriculture, and mining all have an impact on wildlife and watersheds, she said.
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Wheaton College has received a $150,000 grant that will expand support for student and faculty research projects.
The three-year grant, a Presidential Leadership award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will enable faculty members to continue scholarly work beyond the classroom, and it will create opportunities for students to participate in original research.
"This grant addresses one of Wheaton's most essential priorities: providing the resources for faculty and students to conduct scholarly work," said President Ronald Crutcher. "The excitement of intellectual discovery that comes from engagement in scholarship is central to the college's mission and to keeping our curriculum vital and evolving."
The grant will increase the number of stipends the college can offer faculty members in support of their research. Professors' scholarly activity represents a form of professional development that allows faculty to enrich their teaching as well as develop new courses. For example, faculty have introduced new levels of scholarship in the areas of environmental studies; geography, in relation to feminist inquiry; and the pedagogy of writing.
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The Mellon grant also will benefit students directly, by providing support for them to participate in faculty research as well as conduct independent projects for senior honors thesis work.
Student-faculty research collaborations have become a hallmark of the educational experience at Wheaton, and the college has several programs dedicated to supporting these learning opportunities. For example, the Mars Faculty/Student Research Fellowships provide funding for teams of students and faculty to work together on scholarly projects during the summer.
During the school year, the Wheaton Research Partnership program allows faculty members to hire student research assistants using the college's work-study funds. Among the many research efforts that are finding support through the program is the highly successful "Lexomics" research project. The term "Lexomics" was coined by the research team to describe the use of computer programs to conduct statistical analyses of text. This project is so cutting edge that, as one faculty participant noted, "a team of students and faculty from the University of Pennsylvania drove out to Wheaton (in the middle of a blizzard) to learn how to do this work from us." Funds from the Mellon grant will enable successful projects like this to continue.
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Security and medical officials in Kibaale District have registered a case in which a man allegedly went in an isolation ward at Kagadi Hospital and stole a cellular phone from one of the Ebola patients.
The 40-year-old resident of Kyakabugahya LCI in Kagadi Town Council travelled about three kilometers to the hospital to apparently obtain a phone estimated to be valued at Shs60,000 more than two weeks ago.
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In his confession made to the police, the suspect, now patient, claimed he had visited the isolation ward to give them comfort although he confessed to knowing none in person.
The Kibaale District Health Officer, Dr Dan Kyamanywa, said: "The suspect is admitted at Kagadi Hospital with clinical signs of Ebola." "He is receiving medication. We have obtained samples from him," Mr Kyamanywa added. The Uganda Virus Research Institute had by press time not returned results of his tests.
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The number of patients discharged from hospital stands at 53 and 40 are being followed up. The taskforce vice chairman, Mr Stephen Mfashigabo, said over 380 contacts on Wednesday completed 21 days of follow up and have been declared Ebola negative.


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PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California,[1][2][3] with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems.
Founded in 1970 as a division of Xerox Corporation, PARC has been responsible for such well known and important developments as laser printing, Ethernet, the modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI) and desktop paradigm, object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon (a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) for semiconductors.
Xerox formed Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary in 2002.
- History 1
- PARC today 2
Accomplishments 3
- The Alto 3.1
- The GUI 3.2
Distinguished researchers 4
- People associated with PARC 4.1
- Legacy 5
- See also 6
- References 7
- Further reading 8
- External links 9
In 1969, Chief Scientist at Xerox physicist specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance and provost of Washington University in St. Louis, about starting a second research center for the company.
Pake selected Palo Alto, California, as the site of what was to become known as PARC. While the 3,000 mile buffer between it and Xerox headquarters in Rochester, New York afforded scientists at the new lab great freedom to undertake their work, the distance also served as an impediment in persuading management of the promise of some of their greatest achievements.
PARC's West Coast location proved to be advantageous in the mid-1970s, when the lab was able to hire many employees of the nearby SRI Augmentation Research Center as that facility's funding from DARPA, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force began to diminish. Being situated on Stanford Research Park land leased from Stanford University[4] allowed Stanford graduate students to be involved in PARC research projects, and PARC scientists to collaborate with academic seminars and projects.
Much of PARC's early success in the computer field was under the leadership of its Computer Science Laboratory manager Bob Taylor, who guided the lab as associate manager from 1970 to 1977 and as manager from 1977 to 1983.
PARC today
After three decades as a division of Xerox, PARC was transformed in 2002 into an independent, wholly owned subsidiary company dedicated to developing and maturing advances in science and business concepts with the support of commercial partners and clients.
Xerox remains the company's largest customer (50%), but PARC has numerous other corporate and venture clients in different fields of use than Xerox including: VMware, Fujitsu, Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), Samsung, NEC, SolFocus, Powerset, Thin Film Electronics ASA and many more.
PARC currently conducts research into "clean technology", user interface design, sensemaking, ubiquitous computing and context-aware systems, large-area electronics, digital manufacturing, and model-based control and optimization in embedded, intelligent systems.
Xerox PARC has been the inventor and incubator of many elements of modern computing in the contemporary office work place:
- Laser printers,
- Computer-generated bitmap graphics
- The Graphical user interface, featuring windows and icons, operated with a mouse
- The WYSIWYG text editor
- Interpress, a resolution-independent graphical page-description language and the precursor to PostScript
- Ethernet as a local-area computer network
- Fully formed object-oriented programming in the Smalltalk programming language and integrated development environment.
- Model–view–controller software architecture
The Alto
Most of these developments were included in the Alto, which added the now familiar SRI-developed mouse,[5] unifying into a single model most aspects of now-standard personal computer use. The integration of Ethernet prompted the development of the PARC Universal Packet architecture, much like today's Internet.
The GUI
Xerox has been heavily criticized (particularly by business historians) for failing to properly commercialize and profitably exploit PARC's innovations. A favorite example is the GUI, initially developed at PARC for the Alto and then commercialized as the Xerox Star by the Xerox Systems Development Department. Although very significant in terms of its influence on future system design, it is deemed a failure because it only sold approximately 25,000 units. A small group from PARC led by David Liddle and Charles Irby formed Metaphor Computer Systems. They extended the Star desktop concept into an animated graphic and communicating office-automation model and sold the company to IBM.
Distinguished researchers
Among PARC's distinguished researchers were three Turing Award winners: Butler W. Lampson (1992), Alan Kay (2003), and Charles P. Thacker (2009). The ACM Software System Award recognized the Alto system in 1984, Smalltalk in 1987, InterLisp in 1992, and Remote Procedure Call in 1994. Lampson, Kay, Bob Taylor, and Charles P. Thacker received the National Academy of Engineering's prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2004 for their work on the Alto.
People associated with PARC
- Daniel G. Bobrow
- David Boggs
- Anita Borg
- John Seely Brown
- Bill Buxton
- Stuart Card
- Robert Carr
- Ed Chi
- Elizabeth F. Churchill
- Lynn Conway
- Franklin C. Crow
- Pavel Curtis
- Steve Deering
- L Peter Deutsch
- Paul Dourish
- Clarence Ellis
- David Em
- William English
- David Eppstein
- Matthew K. Franklin
- Sean R. Garner
- Charles Geschke
- Adele Goldberg
- Jack Goldman
- Timothy A. Gonsalves
- Bill Gosper
- Rich Gossweiler
- Rebecca Grinter
- Neil Gunther
- Marti Hearst
- Bruce Horn
- Bernardo Huberman
- Dan Ingalls
- Van Jacobson
- Natalie Jeremijenko
- Ronald Kaplan
- Lauri Karttunen
- Alan Kay
- Martin Kay
- Gregor Kiczales
- Ralph Kimball
- Butler Lampson
- Cristina Lopes
- Andrew K. Ludwick
- Jock D. Mackinlay
- David Maynard
- Edward M. McCreight
- Ralph Merkle
- Diana Merry
- Robert Metcalfe
- Jim Mitchell
- Louis Monier
- Thomas P. Moran
- James H. Morris
- Martin Newell
- Geoffrey Nunberg
- Severo Ornstein
- George Pake
- Randy Pausch
- Peter Pirolli
- Ashwin Ram
- Prasad Ram
- Trygve Reenskaug
- George G. Robertson
- Eric Schmidt
- Ronald V. Schmidt
- Bertrand Serlet
- Scott Shenker
- John Shoch
- Charles Simonyi
- Brian Cantwell Smith
- Robert Spinrad
- Bob Sproull
- Gary Starkweather
- Maureen C. Stone
- Lucy Suchman
- Bert Sutherland
- Robert Taylor
- Shang-Hua Teng
- Larry Tesler
- Chuck Thacker
- Bill Verplank
- John Warnock
- Mark Weiser
- Niklaus Wirth
- Frances Yao
- Annie Zaenen
PARC's developments in information technology served for a long time as standards for much of the computing industry. Many advances were not equalled or surpassed for two decades, enormous timespans in the fast-paced high-tech world.
While there is some truth that Xerox management failed to see the potential of many of PARC's inventions, this was mostly centered to the computing research, a relatively small part of PARC's operations. A number of GUI engineers left to join Apple Computer. Technologies pioneered by its materials scientists such as LCD, optical disc innovations, and laser printing were actively and successfully introduced by Xerox to the business and consumer marketplaces.[6]
Work at PARC since the early 1980s includes advances in ubiquitous computing, aspect-oriented programming, and IPv6.
See also
- Xerox Daybreak (a.k.a. Xerox Windows 6085)
- GlobalView
- ^ "Contact." PARC. Retrieved on November 11, 2010. "PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA"
- ^ "driving & public transportation directions." PARC. Retrieved on November 11, 2010.
- ^ "map." PARC. Retrieved on November 11, 2010.
- ^ Map of Stanford Research Park on Stanford University Real Estate web site
- ^ Xerox PARC was the first research group to widely adopt the mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in Menlo Park, California.
- ^ "Milestones, PARC, a Xerox company".
Further reading
- Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (HarperCollins, New York, 1999) ISBN 0-88730-989-5
- Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander, Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer (William Morrow and Company, New York, 1988) ISBN 1-58348-266-0
- M. Mitchell Waldrop, The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Viking Penguin, New York, 2001) ISBN 0-670-89976-3
- Howard Rheingold, Tools for Thought (MIT Press, 2000) ISBN 0-262-68115-3
External links
- PARC official web site
- Xerox PARC innovation
- Xerox Star Historical Documents
- MacKiDo article
- Oral history interview with Terry Allen Winograd Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Oral history interview with Paul A. Strassmann Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Oral history interview with William Crowther Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Articles lacking reliable references from August 2013
- All articles lacking reliable references
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2012
- Coordinates not on Wikidata
- Xerox
- History of human–computer interaction
- Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Technology transfer
- Research and development organizations
- Companies based in Palo Alto, California
- Companies established in 1970
- Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Research and development in the United States
- Company spin-offs


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While most people agree that parental controls are a must, how can we tell if a feature slips from "concerned parent" to "privacy violation?" Individuals must decide that for themselves based on all the information about a specific program or feature. The internet is an easy place to stumble upon things young users shouldn't find. Could this feature be abused to spy on other users, or is it a legitimate way to keep your computer safe?
In mid-October, 2013, Google rolled out a new feature that allows an account manager to view what "Secured Users" on their device were viewing on Google Chromebooks and Chrome browsers. The technology allows the manager to view the history in almost real time. Anyone can put this feature on any device that uses Google Chrome as an internet browser. As long as the manager profile is password protected, no other user can change the settings.
This new feature doesn't just allow the manager to watch a user's history, but also allows application whitelisting and blacklisting. Using the whitelisting option allows the manager to only permit certain websites or applications to run during a certain user's session. The blacklisting option is similar to how internet security companies prohibit certain sites or apps that have shown to have malware or viruses, but the manager can add any site deemed inappropriate for that user.
Google is one of the most innovative technology companies. With the release of the parental controls, currently in beta, and the Secured User feature, it allows users more control over what happens on their computers, and discourages activities that might produce viruses and malware on their systems. As long as everyone uses it for it's intended purpose, for protecting kids, and not to violate another person's privacy, then there won't be any issues.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
Bell Point Realty is looking for a fresh, professional design for their existing real estate web site. I need the talented folks at SitePoint to make it happen. See long description for details.
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Bell Point Realty is a leading Realtor in the Lake George area of New York State.
A word about the logo: The logo on the current web site is not right. See this link for an example of how their logo looks in their printed materials (business cards, letterhead, etc.). Please use the correct logo style in the new design. A vector version of the bell for their logo may be downloaded here, and the font for the wording is Liberty.
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Meet Pigzbe, the newest member of the Primo family!
Cubetto: Screenless coding toy for girls and boys aged 3-6
This will teach girls and boys all over the world the basics of programming away from the screen.
Randi Zuckerberg
CEO Zuckerberg Media
Because it does not require the use of an app, Cubetto is accessible to kids who don't have a smartphone or tablet wherever they play.
Tech Crunch
To see children totally absorbed in Cubetto and motivated was a special Montessori moment.
Melissa Stockdale
Teacher & Lecturer
It gives children a fun route into the concepts and jargon of computer coding using tangible real-world objects.
Kids don't need to read in order to understand the real fun and creativity that comes with coding.
Chris Mairs
Computer scientist
Meet Cubetto
Cubetto is the friendly wooden robot that will teach your child the basics of computer programming through adventure and hands on play. Montessori approved, LOGO Turtle inspired.
Your child's first coding kit
Made of tactile and hard-wearing wood he's your child's guide into the world of coding. Screenless, friendly and ready to play.
Coding Blocks
A coding language you can touch and manipulate like LEGO®. Each block is an action. Combine them to create programs.
Forward Left Right Function Backward Negation Random
Control Board
Place the blocks on the board to tell Cubetto where to go. Hit the blue button and Cubetto executes your very first program.
Maps and Books
Expand play time with world maps, educational story book and challenges that take your child on epic coding adventures.
Join the Playroom and discover new ways to play and learn with your Cubetto Playset
Watch kids code with Cubetto
For girls as well as boys
Reimagined as plain fun
Everything your little one needs to begin their coding adventure.
1x Cubetto Robot, 1x Interface Board, 16x Coding Blocks, 1x World Map, 1x Story Book
$225Buy now
Tech specs
Pack Size: 27(w) x 26(h) x 15(d)cm, Weight (approx.): 1.5kg, Materials: Linden Plywood, ABS, Battery: AA x6, Life: 4-6hrs (continuous play), Bluetooth: BT4.0, Range: ≤10m, Certs: ASTM, EN, ISO, CE, FCC, IC
How is this coding?
Cubetto introduces a host of programming concepts, including 'algorithms', 'the queue', 'debugging', and 'recursions'. By removing unfamiliar distractions such as screens and keyboards this allows children as young as three to write and execute their first programs, using our tangible, block-based coding language.
Is it suitable for 3 year olds?
Absolutely, Cubetto has been specifically designed to be most useful for children aged 3-6, meaning we've paid a huge amount of attention to every last detail. From the child-friendly language in our stories, to the machine-washable maps.
Do you ship worldwide?
We're thrilled to be shipping to 60 countries around the world and are constantly working to bring Cubetto to more people meaning this number is increasing rapidly. To check if Cubetto is available in your country, visit our shop to and check our list of countries we ship to.
Can I use this in my classroom?
Absolutely! We have a growing bank of activities, lesson plans, and other resources to help you inspire coding in your classroom with Cubetto. You can find them right here, at primotoys.com/resources.
How long do the batteries last?
Cubetto can explore for up to 5 hours of continuous play with your little one, on one set of batteries.
How long is the warranty?
Each Cubetto playset comes with one year of warranty from the date of purchase.
What certification does it have?
Making a learning experience safe is as important as making it fun. This means we ensure we meet and aim to exceed all certifications required in the countries we ship to.
Can I become a distributor?
We are working with distributors worldwide. Please check on our distributor page to see if we already have a distributor in your country. If we do not, please contact [email protected], with a description of your company. Our business development team will get in touch with you.