Amazon Promotes STEM Toys in an Easy-to-pick-from List

By Alex Batty, MHI Marketing Communications Coordinator |@mhi_alex

If you meet me, you’ll soon discover that I love Amazon. I pay for Prime and I use it so hard. Much of my house is populated with things that magically appear from Amazon. The UPS guy knows my name, and I try hard to not feel real weird about that.

If you, like me, spend any time on Amazon, you soon discover that Amazon really likes lists, and groups, and collections. It’s a smart selling tool. Like this thing? You’ll probably also like these other things in this collection. But I recently came across one that made me really excited. Amazon has a list that is full of STEM picks toys for kids!

These are the toys I would have loved as a kid. Though I did end up going into the humanities (don’t shame me, math just isn’t my friend), I always loved science. Still do. But my parents fed that with the same kind of stuff that’s on this list. I got Space Shuttle action toys and science kits and books from National Geographic. Though this list seems to be mysteriously missing Legos *cough cough*

At this point, you’re probably wondering why this is on a supply chain/material handling blog. Even though I never thought I’d be in a hard science field (again, math=bad), I ended up with my humanities backpack back here in supply chain, where science and technology and math and engineering live and breathe and work to make the world go round.

No matter where kids end up, STEM toys can only expand their mind and bring skills to future careers. And who knows? They might even end up in supply chain like I did, even though tiny me (seriously, I was super short for the longest time) never even new it existed. Like my parents, you can foster kids’ love of learning what makes the world go round, and isn’t that what supply chain is really about? Figuring out the best ways to move the stuff we need.

Science!

If you want to check out the list, you can go to this Amazon STEM Toys List.

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