Announcing the WInners of the 2026 Tools Competition!

2026 Winner

Lab-on-a-Book

Expanding access to hands-on science learning through an AI-powered, ultra-low-cost lab

Brazil, United States of America

Focus Area:

K-12 Learning

Prize Level:

Catalyst Prize

Project Description

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.

Meet Our Team

Carolina Sotério

Doctoral Student of Education

Paulo Blikstein

Associate Professor of Technology, Media and Learning