Wonder Workshop’s Dash Robot Wins Highest Honor from Oppenheim Toy Portfolio

Dash Robot Awarded Top Toy Industry Honor for Holiday 2016

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio announced that Wonder Workshop’s Dash
robot has been honored as a Platinum award winner by the Oppenheim Toy
Portfolio. The highest honor given by Oppenheim, Wonder Workshop,
creator of Dash and Dot robots that make coding fun for kids 6 and up,
is being recognized as one of the most inventive and engaging new
products of the year.

“Dash is designed to introduce kids to beginning programming skills
through playful interaction with its child user,” said Stephanie
Oppenheim, co-founder of Oppenheim Toy Portfolio. “Our child and parent
testers alike find Dash to be an amazing product that will delight
children right out of the box.”

Led by industry veterans Joanne and Stephanie Oppenheim, the Oppenheim
Toy Portfolio is the leading resource and benchmark of excellence for
consumers, toy industry professionals, and media. Earlier this year,
Oppenheim also awarded Dash the Gold Seal award for being an outstanding
product that enhances the lives of children.

“At Wonder Workshop, we believe it is of the utmost importance to engage
children through creativity and play,” said Vikas Gupta, chief executive
officer and co-founder of Wonder Workshop. “We are honored to receive
this prestigious award from Oppenheim Toy Portfolio as validation that
Dash is a fun, engaging way for children to learn computer science
skills, while helping them to become the builders and masters of their
worlds.”

Wonder Workshop’s unique approach to coding tools for kids has
established them as leaders in the toy industry, in schools, and for
families worldwide. Kids have executed over 4.6 million programs on Dash
and Dot and thousands of teams of kids ages 6-12 are currently engaged
in Wonder
Workshop’s International Robotics Competition, a series of real
coding challenges designed to inspire the technologists of tomorrow.

Availability

Wonder Workshop’s Dash and Dot robots are sold in six major retailers in
the U.S. and Canada including Apple stores, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy,
Target, Toys R Us, Amazon, and www.dashtherobot.com.
Dash and Dot work with a suite of free apps for iOS, Android, and Amazon
Fire devices.

About Wonder Workshop

Wonder Workshop was founded in 2012 by Vikas Gupta, Saurabh Gupta and
Mikal Greaves, a team of inventors, designers, programmers and parents
sharing a mission to make coding a new creative tool accessible for
children from age six and up. Today, Dash and Dot are used in more than
8,500 elementary school classrooms around the world, and children in
more than 37 countries are using Wonder Workshop to ignite curiosity and
confidence through play while learning essential 21st century skills.
Learn more about the San Mateo, CA-based company by visiting https://www.makewonder.com/.

About the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio

The independent consumer organization rates the best children’s toys
based on a number of criteria including quality, innovation and whether
a toy is fun and engaging. Toys are reviewed by child development and
toy experts Joanne and Stephanie Oppenheim as well as their network of
family testers all over the United States. The Oppenheims are
contributors to NBC’s TODAY Show. The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum,
Gold and SNAP (special needs) Awards for 2016 are available at
toyportfolio.com.

Contacts

for Wonder Workshop
Katie Warmuth
wonderworkshop@sutherlandgold.com