Wonderfi renews "Wonderbox" STEAM communication materials for children

Enroll by March 11, 2024 and receive luxury toy materials!

- The following is content from the press release -

Wonderbox, a correspondence course offered by WonderPhi Inc. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Kei Kawashima) that allows students to enjoy learning STEAM education materials at home, has undergone a renewal and has established new courses according to the characteristics of each age group. To commemorate the renewal, a campaign will be held to give away a set of gorgeous toy teaching materials.

Wonder Box is a distance learning service that fosters thinking and creativity through STEAM materials in areas such as programming, science, and art. In the four years since its launch, the service has been well received by children and their parents as a service that uses new ideas and technologies to bring out an unparalleled intellectual excitement.

In recent years, the revision of the Courses of Study has placed a greater emphasis on inquiry-based learning, and an increasing number of municipalities and schools are engaging in STEAM education. In response to the growing need to incorporate STEAM education into home learning, "Wonder Box" has been renewed, with a curriculum designed with "the characteristics of each age group" in mind, so that each child can enjoy, feel, think, and absorb what is important at each stage of development at their own age. The curriculum has been designed with the "characteristics of each age group" in mind, and four new courses have been established.

4 new courses according to the characteristics of each age group

1) "Junior Course"

Recommended age: 4-6 years old (starting age: middle of the year or older)

Anything can be interesting! at this time of the year.
We have lined up educational materials that foster intellectual curiosity and self-confidence.

Recommended for the following households
I want her to grow up thinking for herself.
I want to expose them to a variety of materials and expand their possibilities.
I hope you find many things you like and become good at them.

(2) "Junior Plus"

Recommended age: 5 to 7 years old (starting age: older than 5 years old)

This is the time of year when children are becoming more dexterous with their hands, and the things they can do on their own are expanding. We have prepared a lineup of teaching materials that allow children to move their hands and feel a greater sense of growth and accomplishment.

Recommended for the following households
I want to try first! I want to cultivate a willingness to try.
I want her to be a child who doesn't give up immediately and thinks things through.
I want to improve my self-esteem by the time I enter elementary school.

Standard Course

Recommended 1st to 3rd grade

This is the time of year when students acquire a lot of knowledge in school.
We have prepared a lineup of tasteful teaching materials that immerse students in a world of thought and creativity, where they can hone their science sense and conceptual abilities.

Recommended for the following households
I want to improve my ability to think through and solve problems on my own.
I don't want you to get caught up in schoolwork alone.
I want to expose them to thinking skills questions for future examinations.

4) Expert Course

Standard course experience

We have lined up educational materials such as information science simulations that allow students to feel the breadth and depth of the world during this period of time when they can carefully study what they are good at and what they are not so good at.

Recommended for the following households
I want to develop logical thinking skills and the ability to think about questions on my own.
I don't want you to get caught up in schoolwork alone.
I want you to keep working on what you like.

Luxury Toy Teaching Material Set Present Campaign

To celebrate the renewal, the first 500 new members enrolled by March 11, 2024 (Monday) will receive a set of luxury toy teaching materials. Please take this opportunity to experience the "Wonder Box," a STEAM correspondence course that makes learning fun for children.

Application Period

Through Monday, March 11, 2024
*Because of the limited number, the campaign may be terminated as soon as they are gone.

subject (of taxation, etc.)

All Wonderbox members who enroll during the period are eligible.

Luxury Toy Materials Set Contents

Tape Festival" to foster creativity, imagination, and a sense of shape
Using masking tape as a material, the program brings out creativity and imagination through a variety of play styles. In addition, through trial and error while naturally coming into contact with concepts such as straight lines and length in riddle-solving and puzzle-like problems, students will hone their sense of shape.
Pazuru Restaurant" fosters thinking, logic, and a sense of shape
Through trial-and-error puzzles following simple rules, the puzzles nurture a sense of shape, a logical sense of "where to start thinking," and the flexibility to change one's mindset and think from various angles. The puzzle steps are carefully designed so that players can enjoy a sense of accomplishment as they solve the puzzles, and experience the depth of each puzzle.
The "Fun Workbook" fosters thinking, logic, and creativity.
Challenge puzzles and maze problems! Students will experience the "joy of thinking" and hone their thinking sense through trial-and-error, hypothesizing and thinking logically.
For children from middle school to early elementary school, it is more important that they enjoy thinking than whether or not they can solve the problems. Each book contains approximately 20 problems with a difficulty level appropriate for their age.

Application can be made through the official website.
https://box.wonderlabedu.com/

Representative Comment

Representative Director, CCO / Founder, Kei Kawashima, Wonderfi Inc.

Experienced in teaching students from 4 years old to junior high school students at Hanamaru Gakushu-kai, a private tutoring school, and university students as a part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo. In addition to children's homes in Japan, he has provided learning support in the Philippines, Cambodia, and other Asian countries. He was involved in the creation of problems for the Math Olympiad and the supervision of the best-selling problem book "Nazo-Pe～." In 2014, he founded Wonder Phi Inc. and developed the thinking skills training app "Think Think Think" which has 2.5 million users in 150 countries and has received numerous awards including "Google Play Awards. Prefectural Mathematical Thinking Skills Development Advisor. He holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo.

Comment
There was a time when people were expected to do what they were told efficiently or to reproduce what they were told to do as they were told to do it, but now attention has shifted to the importance of deepening our thinking about the questions and doubts that arise from within us and creating ideas and tangible things from them.

Especially in childhood, it is very important not only to "study" to acquire "knowledge and skills" but also to have intellectually exciting experiences. By developing motivation and the ability to think, later learning with knowledge acquisition becomes many times more meaningful. In this renewal, we have set courses with an awareness of the "characteristics of each age group" that we have deepened our understanding of in our research classes, so that each child can enjoy, feel, think, and absorb what is important at each developmental stage of each age group.

Our team will continue to move forward, excited that the children who grow up using our materials will create a wonderful future that exceeds our adult imagination.

About Wonderbox

Wonder Box, launched in April 2020, is a distance learning service in the STEAM domain* that fosters children's "ability to think, creativity, and motivation" at home through a combination of digital and analog methods (target age: 4-10 years old). The service provides playful educational materials such as programming, art, board games, and puzzles to cultivate the basic skills in the STEAM educational domain that will be required in the coming age. It has received numerous awards, including the Kids Design Award, Good Design Award, and Parenting Award. It has received high acclaim for its design and quality as educational materials.

(*)STEAM education is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics, and refers to the educational domain of science and art. It is a concept that has been advocated in educational policy in Europe and the United States, and has recently been emphasized in educational reform in Japan.

▼Wonderbox official website
https://box.wonderlabedu.com/

About WonderPhi Inc.

WonderPhi is a company that develops and operates educational materials and content to bring out the "intellectual excitement" in children around the world, including Wonderbox, a new correspondence course for STEAM education, and Think Think Think, an application that 2.5 million children in 150 countries enjoy to develop their thinking skills. The company is a pioneer in STEAM/STEM and thinking skills educational materials, having produced and supervised many questions for international math competitions.

In November 2018, the company won the top prize at the Japan preliminary round of the Global EdTech Startups Awards (GESA), the world's largest education venture competition (*3). We have also exhibited and spoken at SXSW EDU and other global educational forums as a representative of Japan.

In February 2020, we announced a new distance learning program in the STEAM education area, Wonderbox (*4).
On December 14, 2022, the company name was changed from WonderLab to WonderPhi Inc.(*5).

Official website of Wonderfi Corporation:https://wonderfy.inc/
(*3) https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000028.000012970.html
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