17 STEM-focused gifts to inspire kids to learn coding and love robotics

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0/17 Replay Gallery ^[1] More Galleries ^[2] Skip^[3] SEE SLIDESHOW This is the third ^[4] year ^[5] we’ve run a STEM-focused gift guide — and if you’re intending to buy a child something fun and quasi-educational in holiday season 2017 it’s fair to say there has never been so many programmable bots and kits to choose from, all pledging to spark or sustain an interest in coding and electronics. This year’s guide reflects this boom in ‘educational’ techie toys — featuring programmable and controllable robots of all stripes and shapes, as well as some fully fledged learn-to-code computers and a few lower tech alternatives for variety (and