71 Individual Connection Points: Infinite Impact For over a year, Felicia Brooks (the 2026 Florida Middle School Art Educator of the Year) has been working on a complex exhibit with a community-based outreach component. Throughout the process she has explored soldering, carpentry, programming, and painting. Her deeply personal work has involved circuits, Artificial Intelligence connected […]
Pathfinders Alumni Support Tinkerfest at the National Children’s Museum
On Sunday, 4 October, from 9:30 am-4:30 pm, Chibitronics joined other partner organizations, including Spark!Lab, the International Spy Museum, National Building Museum, KID Museum, and DC Public Library to support hands-on activities for families. Leading the charge were two graduates of our summer Pathfinders professional development course, who brought paper-circuits to the National Children’s Museum […]
Collaborate with Chibitronics During ISTE 2027!
Deadline for Proposals is 30 September 2026! Are you an educator with plans to attend ISTELive27? The 2027 ISTE+ ASCD Conference is taking place Sunday, June 27 through Wednesday, June 30 in Boston, MA! Chibitronics is interested in supporting educators who are planning to present topics related to paper circuits, Circuit Sketcher, and creative coding! […]
Light-Up Pop-Up Travel Journal (Featuring Chibitronics)
Research a Place: Tell Its Story with Pop-Ups and Paper Circuits In this post, I’ll share a way to combine paper circuits with a series of pop-up foundation shapes that may be used as a three-dimensional travel journal. Individually, each mechanism can stand alone. However, each structure may also be combined to create a light-up […]
Glowing, Upcycled Spinner Toy Featuring Chibitronics LEDs and Circuit Sketcher
Hold Onto Your Empty Spools After using up one of my spools of Conductive Fabric Tape, I had a burst of inspiration! Rather than throwing the nice, round cardboard packaging into the recycle bin, I thought it would be a good challenge to come up with a way to repurpose it! Why not transform it […]
Circuit Sketcher Is Live! Design, Test, and Share Paper Circuits in Your Browser
Circuit Sketcher is live. Design and simulate paper circuits online, create printable templates, build project pages, and turn bright ideas into physical projects.
Guest Educator: Lighting Up Literacy with Deann Poleon
Bringing Bugged and Brilliant to Life with Deann Poleon, Chibitronics, and “The Forest Mission” We are excited to introduce a talented educator, technologist, and story-teller who combines the magic of narrative with the hands-on engagement of STEAM learning! We met Deann Poleon, a recent Pathfinders alumna, through one of our affiliates, another Pathfinders alumna, Laurie […]
Moonshotkidz X Chibitronics Collaboration
NEW: Interactive Light Up Cards Kit! Chibitronics is thrilled to partner with Moonshotkidz to bring you a creative new kit that combines the playful paper craft designs of Moonshotkidz with the engaging, learner-friendly circuitry supplies contained in the Chibitronics Start with STEAM: Launchpad LED Kit! Introducing the Moonshotkidz X Chibitronics Interactive Light Up Cards Kit! […]
Heart, Hardware, and Humanity: Bringing STEAM to the ISTE Playground
Guest Educator, Jana Gerard: Pocket Manifestos Every year, the ISTE Playgrounds are a total whirlwind. They’re built for educators to just wander, wonder, and get their hands dirty experimenting with the future of learning. For my session, I wanted to tackle a challenge that’s been on my mind for a while: How do we stop […]
We’re Presenting at ISTE Live26!
Join Us in Orlando! This summer, Chibitronics will be presenting a hands-on workshop and manning a booth at ISTELive26 in Orlando, Florida! The theme of this year’s conference, taking place 28 June-1 July, is Designing the Future of Learning. If you are planning to be at ISTE, we hope you’ll join us during our instructional […]
Meet the Maker: Komal Markan
Collaborative, Community-Based Educator In today’s spotlight, we are honored to introduce Komal Markan, a brilliant artist, software engineer, and community organizer based in Everett, Massachusetts. Komal’s work caught our eye this past spring after she shared a number of fun, light-up projects with us. Alongside her adolescent children, Komal brings engaging hands-on making to her […]
Two NEW Template Notebook Kits
Start with STEAM & Create with STEAM Exciting news! We’ve transformed one of our flagship products, the award-winning STEM Starter Kit (ages 14+), into two bright NEW kits (ages 8+)! Not simply a repeat of our classic kit, with new names and packaging, this evolution into Level 1 and Level 2 kits reimagines a new […]