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CELEBRATE TWELVE YEARS OF GREAT KIDS’ MEDIA

The 12th Annual KAPi (Kids at Play Interactive) Awards celebrate excellence in children’s media and digital toys. What makes the KAPI Award program unique is our illustrious panel of judges. For the past ten years our experts have crafted a vision of the best digital toys on the market, and expressed that vision in the KAPi awards.

Congratulations to the 2020 Winners:

Best Overall Technology Toy: Hasbro's Lightsaber Academy
Best App: LEGO^® DUPLO® WORLD
Best STEM/STEAM Product: Learning Resources' Coding Critters^™
Best Creative Experience: Bandai Namco Entertainment's tori™ Explorer Pack
Noteworthy School Product: FableVision Studios' Keenville
Pioneer Team: ELENCO^®
Legend: David Small and Paul Rago's Shoot the Moon
Best Robotics: Educational Insights' Artie 3000^™ The Coding Robot
Judge's Choice: Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure
Best Use of Emerging Technology: Virsix's St. Noire

2020 KAPi Entries

Lightsaber Academy

The Hasbro Star Wars Lightsaber Academy Interactive Battling System with an app on iPad or iPhone let kids train with the greatest Jedi and Sith in the galaxy, battle legendary Masters, and go head-to-head against friends. The ...

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Coding Critters^™

Coding Critters are kids’ first coding friends, introducing basic coding as early as preschool through 100% screen-free “storybook coding”. Follow the storybook to bring tales to life and learn valuable STEM skills. The interac...

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tori^™ Explorer Pack

With the tori Explorer pack, we’re offering families a whole new way to play where the magic of digital entertainment is combined with the fun of creative activities. Our Mirror Play technology allows for the importing of toys ...

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Keenville

To provide a unique alternative to traditional classroom assessments, the Georgia Department of Education, the Georgia Center for Assessment, and FableVision Studios teamed up to create Keenville, an optional game-based assessm...

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Artie 3000

Artie 3000 is where coding meets creativity. This easy-to-learn coding robot puts kids in control from beginner to pro, allowing them to learn up to seven coding languages ranging from easy-to-use drag and drop to advanced line...

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St. Noire

St. Noire is the world’s first Alexa-powered murder mystery board game. Created by Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) and Zai Ortiz (Hollywood Creative Director), St. Noire features over a dozen voice actors, +2500 lines of spok...

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Anytime Art

Kids learn new creative skills with their very own virtual art class! Teacher Sasha walks them through a different art project over the course of five days and listeners follow along to create their own masterpieces. In this po...

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Don’t Break the Rules

This comedy-improvisation game show hosted by Carly Ciarrochhi, casts four hilarious voice-actors who create improvisation characters, scenes, and stories based off kids suggestions. Their goal is to be the last actor standing,...

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Piper and the dots

Piper and the Dots follows a playful preschooler named Piper and three musical Dots as they joyfully find adventure around their home and neighborhood. Adopting an inventive approach to storytelling, this interactive, musical a...

Pinna

Pinna is the only ad-free audio streaming service developed and curated exclusively for kids 3-12. With the goal of activating kids’ imaginations through immersive screen-free entertainment, Pinna creates and produces original ...

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Ultimate D-O

In partnership with our Disney and Lucasfim partners, Ultimate D-O is the first app controlled self-balancing omni wheel droid, Hasbro has ever brought to market. An opportunity allowing all parties to broaden their offering to...

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Peppy Pals Social Skills

To give children the skills they need to reach their fullest potential, and at the same time level the playing field, we must consciously tap into children’s social and emotional intelligence as part of the early childhood deve...

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Emotional ABCs

Emotional ABCs Classroom is the school-based version of our website, EmotionalABCs.com. Our Free Teacher program has been taken up in more than 50,000 elementary schools across the USA in its first year since going live online....

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Weyo & Oddbods Oddlife

Weyo collaborates with the world’s leading brands to create quality digital toys that are playful, active and immersive for a whole lot of giggly fun! Life is more fun with the Oddbods! See what happens when you and your favori...

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Let’s Start Coding Ultimate Kit 2

The Ultimate Kit 2 takes kids 10-14 deep into coding via environmental sensors and a dozen other electronic components that they control with code. Using sound, light, or temperature as ‘inputs’, kids learn how real-world elect...

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Weyo & Sesame Street Yourself

Weyo collaborates with the world’s leading brands to create quality digital toys that are playful, active and immersive for a whole lot of giggly fun! With Sesame Street you can play games and sing along with your favorite Sesa...

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The Coolpad Dyno^™ Smartwatch

The Coolpad Dyno Smartwatch is made for kids, with safety and peace of mind for parents. It offers the features that parents need, with a design and user interface that kids will love. MADE FOR KIDS – Friendly, Animated E...

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Adventure Academy

Adventure Academy is the first massively multiplayer online game (MMO) designed specifically to help children learn. Created by Age of Learning, the company behind research-validated ABCmouse.com, the game integrates curriculum...

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Puku: Learn New Words

Other pets just eat your homework. This one helps you ace it! Puku was created to help kids 8-12 enjoy learning vocabulary, with plenty of leveled and interest-based vocab lists plus the ability for users to create their own li...

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Botley 2.0

Botley 2.0 is the newest generation of Learning Resources’ award-winning Botley the Coding Robot, a screen-free, interactive toy designed for kids 5+ to gain introductory coding skills without the need for a phone or tablet. Ki...

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XPLORA 4 Kids Smartwatch

XPLORA 4 – The Most Advanced Children’s Smartwatch to date After establishing our selves as category leader, we are now taking a huge leap forward in the era post smartphones, by introducing our new XPLORA 4. Buildi...

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The Mysterious Disapperance of Unicorn Blue

The Mysterious Disappearance of Unicorn Blue is a fast moving augmented reality game that supports STEM learning through mobile outdoor play. This immersive fantasy deserves a KAPi award for it’s uniqueness as the only ch...

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Base Kit 2

Base Kit 2 engages kids 8-12 in programming with hands-on electronics. It combines physical components that offer immediate gratification, real typed coding that teaches transferable skills, and structured projects with support...

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Wonder Painter

Wonder Painter is an innovative technology ,it integrates human-computer interaction, computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Wonder Painter turns your selfies, drawings, and creations into both 2D and 3...

Octobo by Thinker-Tinker

Robots don’t need to be hard! We create tech toys with an innovative soft, textile interface to provide ways to interact and immerse yourself in a game, story, and learning adventures. Four differentiators make us unique: 1. Ch...

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LumieLabs

LumieLabs is Britannica’s K-12 digital storytelling and video-creation platform that shapes a new future for classroom learning. LumieLabs combines curriculum-relevant, project-based video lessons with millions of royalty...

Emys

Our great dream was to create new opportunities for the younger generation to develop, which is why we have built a ROBOT which maps the natural learning processes previously reserved only for human to human relationships. EMYS...

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Kindle Kids Edition

Amazon’s new Kindle Kids Edition is an e-reader that’s designated just for reading, which means no distractions from apps, videos or games and is ideal for both beginner and experienced chapter book readers. From timeless class...

FreeTime Unlimited

Amazon FreeTime is an easy-to-use app that helps parents create a controlled, kid-friendly environment where kids can safely play, learn, and discover on their own. FreeTime offers access to tens of thousands of kid-friendly we...

Shifu Plugo

Shifu Plugo: interactive AR gaming system -Plugo makes S.T.E.A.M. hands-on and super fun – comes with 1 gamepad, 6 interchangeable gaming kits, 1 companion app (3 more kits coming soon) -Designed for 4-10 year olds. Educa...

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Creative Creature Catcher

Creative Creature Catcher is a new, innovative Augmented Reality children’s book created from the ground up to use the latest technologies to engage kids with a multi-sensory book reading experience. The plot encourages life le...

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Gumball Machine Maker

A gumball machine, marble run, roller coaster, pinball machine, and STEM lesson all rolled into one—that’s Gumball Machine Maker! With it, you get to build your own gumball machines and learn physics lessons in the process. Tur...

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Robotics: Smart Machines – HoverBots with BalanceTech

This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics. You can build eight motorized robots that use a special self-balancing technology to move around. Code programs for your robots using an easy, visual...

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My Robotic Pet – Tumbling Hedgehog

Now’s your chance to have a hedgehog of your own—and learn something about robotics in the process! This adorable robotic pet hedgehog uses a built-in sound sensor to react to clapping. Watch how different patterns of claps ins...

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Toca Life: World

Beloved digital toy studio Toca Boca released Toca Life: World late last year. It is the new (free!) sandbox-style app where players can create their own world and role play any story they like. This mega-app brings all of the ...

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BuddyPhones Cosmos – ANC

The BuddyPhones Cosmos are the only headphones to combine active noise-cancelling technology, volume-limiting circuitry, and multiple listening settings in one premium safe audio product. By 8 years old, 93% of kids go online f...

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Roybi RObot

ROYBI is the creator of Roybi Robot, an interactive language learning tutor for children ages 3+. Roybi Robot uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized content to children based on their pace and interests. With over...

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Countdown

Ready or not, here Countdown comes! You may think you know hide & seek, but you’ve never played like this before. Countdown is a tiny-handheld toy that can be hidden anywhere for a modern spin on the classic playground game...

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LeapStart^® Go

Go beyond the basics with the new LeapStart® Go interactive learning system. This sleek, easy-to-carry stylus brings compatible books and activity sets to life and uses video to provide a deeper learning experience with select ...

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Sir Dapp! Game Show

Manners and consideration of others take a turn into fantasy and fun when Sir Dapp, the dancing and rapping Schnauzer, invites children to play the Sir Dapp! Game Show! This trivia-style mobile app challenges early readers ages...

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RockIt Twist^™

Game and learn with a TWIST! Four sides of buttons, spinners, sliders and switches provide a unique play experience that’s perfectly paired with exciting video games. Preloaded games teach a variety of core skills including lit...

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Funexpected Math

Funexpected Math is an interactive environment for kids 3-7 years old with a continually growing collection of mini-games on math-related topics. Children develop a mathematical mindset effortlessly while playing engaging visua...

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Myla the Magical Unicorn^™

Light-up every day with Myla the Magical Unicorn™! This colorful robotic unicorn toy glitters with lights as she talks and sings. Touch Myla’s wand to the butterfly palette to choose a color. Then touch the wand to her e...

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Amplify Reading

Amplify Reading is a reading program that grows with your students. For teachers, Amplify Reading is a research-based, standards-aligned program that supports them in building their students’ reading skills across key domains—u...

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Hot Wheels id

Hot Wheels id is the biggest evolution in the brand’s 51 year history. For over 50 years, kids have bragged about how fast their cars have gone, how many laps they’ve done or how long they’ve driven. Until now...

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