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Welcome to the BLOCK Fest™website!
As Math and Science have come to the forefront of our nation’s educational concerns, the University of Idaho Parents as Teacher Demonstration Project designed strategies and tools to develop these important skills in our youngest students.
BLOCK Fest™ was the result of these efforts and the financial support from grants and corporate sponsors. Research shows that children build math and science skills from the earliest years of life and that play provides a natural learning lab for such development. Block play offers a rich opportunity for early math and science learning and the development of social, emotional, language, motor and cognitive skills.
In 2009 the University of Idaho signed an agreement awarding exclusive licensing rights to produce and distribute BLOCK Fest™ to The Twiga Foundation, Inc. The Twiga Foundation, founded by former Idaho First Lady Patricia Kempthorne, is dedicated to inspiring, promoting and maintaining family-consciousness in the home, the workplace and the community.
The Twiga Foundation is currently involved across the nation with various projects addressing the qualities of a creative and productive American workforce for the 21st century. Kempthorne said, “With the addition of BLOCK Fest™ to enhance the Twiga Foundation mission, we are investing in family-consciousness at home and the development of the workforce of the future.”