2021-02-02 / Last updated : 2021-02-02 KUMIITA Notice

Our picture was a silver prize at MCA

The Mom’s Choice Awards® has named From Planet Programming, it’s KUMIITA! -First Impressions- as among the best in family-friendly media, products and services. The MCA evaluation process uses a propriety methodology in which entries are scored on a number of elements including production quality, design, educational value, entertainment value, originality, appeal, and cost. Click here for the picture book award page Click here for the picture book purchase page About the Mom’s Choice Awards®The Mom’s Choice Awards® (MCA) evaluates products and services created for children, families and educators. The program is globally recognized for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. The organization is based in […]
2021-01-11 / Last updated : 2021-01-13 KUMIITA Notice

KUMIITA is exhibiting at CES2021

KUMIITA is exhibiting at CES2021, the world’s largest technology trade fair.* This year it will be held online. If you have an account, please see from the venue below.https://digital.ces.tech/home KUMIITA is an educational toy that can be enjoyed by all generations (7 months to adults).By recombining the panel with instructions and running KUMIITA from the start to the goal,it is a product that fosters logical thinking ability. We also introduce educational picture books that have been available since December 2020. Please take this opportunity to check it out.
2020-07-17 / Last updated : 2020-08-04 KUMIITA Others

A new 21st century “STEM” education opportunity, a picture book and an appendix set

A new 21st century “STEM” education opportunity, a picture book and an appendix set Project started from Kickstarter Toshiko Tsuchiya, the representative director of ICON Corp., has started a project for the educational picture book “From Planet Programming, it’s Kumiita!” on Kickstarter, a cloud funding platform, since July 17, 2020. Crowd-funding page   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconcorp/educational-picture-and-activity-book
2019-11-18 / Last updated : 2019-11-27 KUMIITA Notice

Kumiita set for educational organization was approved as the product for SBIR by City of Yokohama.

Kumiita set for educational organization was approved as the product for Small Business Innovation Research by City of Yokohama on 18th of November, 2019. While having fun of complex movement, children can obtain logical thinking of programming by their eyes and ears.   The below link will direct you to the City of Yokohama site. ————————————— Press release [Japanese]（横浜市経済局ものづくり支援課): https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/city-info/koho-kocho/press/keizai/2019/20191125.html press release document [Japanese]: https://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/city-info/koho-kocho/press/keizai/2019/20191125.files/0001_20191125.pdf（PDF：932KB）
2019-08-11 / Last updated : 2019-08-20 KUMIITA Notice

KUMIITA new product appearance and kickstarter start

KUMIITA series new product appeared!Target age is 4 to 12 years old[World’s No.1 crowdfunding site]  Campaign dates : August 11 to September 10,2019Target amount of $ 14,084Reward : 50% OFF retail price Sold out! Thank you!45% OFF retail price Limited(15 left of 25)40% OFF retail price Limited(50 left of 50)and more…URL : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconcorp/kumiita-educational-toy-new-logical-think-skill-up-kit?ref=6iewyuPlease support this new product by kickstarter until September 10th. Click on the image below! !A complicated program to learn programming while playing and see “what is happening”. Following the “beginner set” for 0 years (7 months) to 5 years old [New product] The main body and panel 40 panels set for 4 to 12 years old, a new expansion panel that can […]
2019-05-15 / Last updated : 2019-05-15 KUMIITA Notice

I attended to Tech Day at New York on 2nd of May and did a pitch.

The largest startup in US held by Jacob K. Javits. Introduce KUMIITA at the “TechDay New York” at Convention Center in New York.It was a huge convention, with more than 20000 people checking more than 300 startup projects. The ceo of ICON Corp. Tsuchiya gave a 3 minutes presentation.The presentation of the pitch is here.※The images were taken with a smartphone device, we apologize in case the quality.