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Description: This paper was presented during the 2010 conference on Designing for Children with focus on 'Play + Learn' held at IDC School of Design IIT Bombay by Nikhil Karwall, India. Robotics toys offer a unique play-based medium for kids to understand different scientific concepts and use their creativity to come with intelligent and fun solutions. Certain Programmable Robotic Kits allow children to give a desired physical structure to the robot and further program it to carry out specific intelligent tasks, fuelling their imagination on multiple levels. The paper discusses the thought process and rationale behind the design of a software-based medium for children to program assembled robots created out of such kits. More details at: designingforchildren.net/2010/paper-selected.html Write to us at dsource.in@gmail.com