The ‘Advanced FUNNY MACHINES’ construction kit is among the best in the family friendliness, product and services categories, according to the Mom’s Choice Awards panel of evaluators. The FUNNY MACHINES set allows fun chain reactions to be created. Once set up and tested, the chain reaction can be expanded at leisure. The panel of evaluators for the Mom’s Choice Award is made up of education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors and scientists.

On a global scale fischertechnik is represented in over 60 countries and at popular toy fairs such as the Nuremberg International Toy Fair, New York Toy Fair, Hong Kong Toy Fair and Melbourne Toy Fair. In addition to classic toy retail, school and educational facilities are another important international market for fischertechnik. The ‘Education Line’ product range was specially created five years ago with packaging that was developed for project and group work. School, universities and associations appreciate fischertechnik’s stability and the diverse range of opportunities it offers for the MINT (mathematics, IT, natural sciences, technology) and STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields.

Around 400 teaching staff were trained in Dubai last year on how to use the fischertechnik Mechanics 2.0 construction kit to convey the fundamentals of mechanics and statics using 30 different models or experiments. Teams of pupils use the fischertechnik Robotics product range during summer camps in Taiwan to build, programme and control their own fischertechnik robot models and to compete with one another. A similar event took place in Paraguay last year, where 164 teams of around 600 pupils from 45 schools participated. Numerous initiatives also take place in Germany, such as the Karlsruhe Technik Initiative, which now includes 80 fischertechnik work groups of around 600 pupils in the wider Karlsruhe area.