A grinning caterpillar zooms around the table with blinking lights. Its bright purple eyes light up as it takes a moment to process the commands attached as various segments behind its head. Designed ...

Knowing the importance of STEM in education and having a husband who is a programmer, I have been eager to start my twin preschool boys learn coding concepts, but I assumed they were too young to ...

Kids learning to code on tablets and computers is becoming more commonplace in forward-thinking schools all over the world. Studies have shown that learning to code benefits kids by not only allowing ...

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What might look like just a regular toy is actually a new toy that teaches kids how to code, as well as have fun doing it. The Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar is a $50 toy that gets toddlers and even some ...

Like the Dash and Dot from our round-up of last year's best tech toys for kids, the upcoming Code-a-Pillar has been designed to teach kids how to code in an entertaining and engaging way. Fisher-Price ...

If there ever was a question whether science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) toys were the wave of the future, Fisher-Price just answered it once and for all. The toy giant just ...

The East Aurora-based toy company tapped its designers, electrical engineers and "tech geeks" for Code-a-Pillar, the first toy in its new Think & Learn line. Fisher-Price was seeking to re-enter ...

This article was updated on Jan. 6, 2015, at 1:08 p.m. ET. Bill Gates was 13 when he started to code. Elon Musk was 12 and Mark Zuckerberg was 10. Compared to today’s growing crop of software-savvy ...

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At CES 2016, in Las Vegas, Fisher-Price showed off its new Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar, a toy targeted to preschoolers that aims to teach the foundational skills of coding, through problem solving and ...

Fisher-Price is looking to break back into the pre-school learning segment this year, beginning with the new Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar. It's a small, plastic caterpillar designed to teach children ...