Lab-on-a-Book is an ultra-low-cost science kit in which the book itself is the laboratory: its pages hold light-reactive paper, microfluidic stickers, and materials that students mix, build, and transform to run real chemistry experiments. Alongside it, Lab-on-a-Bot, an AI companion, helps students think like scientists instead of just retrieving answers. The AI can run locally on the student’s own device, so it works in low-resource settings and keeps student data private. Together, they let students do authentic science at school, at home, or anywhere.
Carolina Sotério
Doctoral Student of Education
Carolina Sotério is a Doctoral Student of Education at the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab at Columbia University. She is interested in designing learning environments that invite non-experts to engage in scientific reasoning through playful, hands-on experiences. Her work draws on emancipatory education, critical pedagogy, and constructionism. She is the inventor of Lab-on-a-Book, a low-cost, AI-powered, paper-based science platform that brings science learning to new spaces.