Sandra Oh Lin of KiwiCo Makes Learning Engineering Fun

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Like KiwiCo, subscription-based crates that teach kids STEAM through play founded by mom-of-three Sandra Oh Lin.Sandra Oh Lin spent years building a career as an engineer, focusing on consumer products, tech, and e-commerce.

So when her kids were little, it only felt natural to her to create play experiences for them that were both fun and educational.“As I started to pull these projects together, I started to share them with my friendsand their kids during playdates,” she tells Glamour. “During one gathering, a friend said, ‘You should start a business around this.’”In 2011, Lin took that idea and founded , a toy subscription crate that encourages children to develop STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) skills through play.