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So my in-laws watched my kids on Sunday, and as we were heading out the door, we set up dinner, gave them all the ground rules.

And I said, oh, and by the way, a Kiwi Kit came.

And when I came back, there it was sitting.

They'd done this cool Kiwi Kit.

It's something my kids love to do with my father-in-law.

And I love it because I know, you know, they didn't spend

the whole time we were gone on screens. We love Kiwi Kits in our family. We've been doing

them for many, many years because they work with kids of all ages, all sizes. You sort of grow with

them. You just request different kits based on their interests, and they're really awesome.

KiwiCo makes seriously fun activities and projects that can be played with over and over again.

The only part of them that sit on our shelf is like the thing that they made, right?

Like sometimes we want to display them because they're awesome.

Plus, with so many options kids can explore based on what they're interested in, whether that's robotics or engineering or art or basically anything. Tinker,

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When they can take this for granted, so much is possible.

He dropped out of high school. He bounced around. He made ends meet

fixing bikes. He was not, people thought, going places. Certainly few would have predicted that

he'd get his GED, let alone graduating from Cornell. And who would have guessed he'd end up writing

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