{"id":91145,"date":"2019-03-30T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/nintendo_brings_educational_labo_program_to_classrooms_across_australia"},"modified":"2019-03-30T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:15:00","slug":"nintendo-brings-educational-labo-program-to-classrooms-across-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/nintendo-brings-educational-labo-program-to-classrooms-across-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Brings Educational Labo Program To Classrooms Across Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fd553b24096e6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fd553b24096e6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Labo IMG Cropped\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fd553b24096e6\/nintendo-labo-img-cropped.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fd553b24096e6\/nintendo-labo-img-cropped.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Labo IMG Cropped\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_labo_toy-con_01_variety_kit\">Nintendo Labo<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s educational rollout worldwide appears to be well and truly underway, with Nintendo Australia <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/powerup-gaming.com\/2019\/03\/29\/nintendo-australia-has-launched-an-australian-first-toy-con-focused-school-program\/#prettyPhoto\">launching<\/a> an &#8220;Australian-first&#8221; primary school program, aimed at teaching the basic principles of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The program aims to give 800 primary school-aged children an opportunity to learn and develop these STEM skills by using Nintendo Labo and the Toy-Con Garage. According to research conducted by the Australian Government&#8217;s Department of Industry, Innovation and Science in 2016, 75% of jobs by 2026 will require workers with STEM skills.<\/p>\n<p>Girl Geek Academy Co-Founder and CEO Sarah Moran said how Labo was &#8220;perfect for little learners&#8221; as it &#8220;ignited passion and excitement for STEM&#8221; at a young age, and in a way, few other programs could.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Australia Managing Director Kamon Yoshimura added to this with the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe hope our program provides children across Australia with the tools to build, explore, problem-solve and, in the process, get excited about design and technology \u2013 all while having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Do you think Nintendo Labo has a bright future as an educational tool? Tell us down in the comments.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Labo&#8216;s educational rollout worldwide appears to be well and truly underway, with Nintendo Australia launching an &#8220;Australian-first&#8221; primary school program, aimed at teaching the basic principles of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. The program aims to give 800 primary school-aged children an opportunity to learn and develop these STEM skills by using Nintendo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}