Company Performance Metrics
- Aino Kuronen: Founder and Product Lead
- Jenni Vartiainen: Founder and Head of Research
Kide Science develops 3-8-year-old children’s problem solving skills through story-based hands-on experiments that solve real science problems. The platform provides caregivers like teachers and parents with lesson plans and optional training to lead playful and engaging early childhood education in a classroom or remotely.
A proven pedagogical
method predicts better learning outcomes in school and is based on years of rigorous academic research conducted by the founder in the University of Helsinki.
Kide Science started its commercial business in Finland from December 2017. Kide Science’s research-led pedagogy has helped them to win paying customers in 30 countries with 1000+ preschools. For the new teacher platform (launched in October 2021) there has been registered free trial users from over 100 countries and reaches over 1 million children.
Kide Science team has also produced book series with Sanoma and a TV show on YLE, Finland’s national public service broadcaster.
In 2022, Kide Science has partnered with DreamWorks Animation and its hit Netflix series Gabby’s Dollhouse to give young scientists cat-tastic themed lesson plans to encourage playful, engaging and inquiry-based learning.
