Science Museum Smart Toy Awards 2008

The 2008 Smart Toy Awards is now open for entries.  

You can enter your toy in up to two of the following four categories:

SMart Play
Open to toys, games* and puzzles which do more than keep boredom at bay. 
* Not open to separate PC or console games

SMart Explore
Open to experiments or kits for enquiring young minds to expand their knowledge of the scientific world.

SMart Build
Open to model and construction kits for all budding engineers.

Kids’ Choice
Open to any toy with a maximum RRP of £10

Science Museum Smart Toy Awards 2007 winners

Electro Mag

Science Museum SMart Toy of the Year

SMart Explore Category Winner

RRP £34.99, 8 years + (John Adams)

Smartlab Motor Mania

SMart Build Category Winner

RRP £14.99, 6 years + (Becker and Mayer)

X-Zylo Launcher

SMart Play Category Winner

RRP £12.99, 8 years + (Wow! Stuff)

X-Zylo is a Science Museum Licensed product

Traffic Control Airport

Highly Commended: SMart Play Category

RRP: £17.99, 8 years + (Smart)

Winonimo

Highly Commended: SMart Play Category

RRP £19.99, 3 years + (Coiledspring Games)

Over 30 children between ages 6 and 12 acted as ‘Official Toy Testers’ to trial all of the toys. They gave marks on a simple scale and provided additional comments. The views of the children were presented to the judges in the afternoon before they considered the toys for themselves.

2007 Shortlisted entries

SMart Explore

• Electro Mag (John Adams)
• Flight School (Interplay UK)
• Disgusting Digestion (James Galt & Co.)
• Eyeclops (Vivid Imaginations)

SMart Build

• Smartlab Motor Mania (Brainiacs)
• Superstructs Big Builder (Treasure Trove Toys)
• Skyrail Motorised Roller Coaster 5 (Treasure Trove Toys)
• Gears! Gears! Gears! (Learning Resources)

SMart Play

• X-Zylo Launcher (Wow! Stuff)
• Winomino (Coiledspring Games)
• Khet (Hobbygames)
• CraZee Diamond (CraZee Things)

2007 judges

• Trevor Baylis OBE, inventor of the wind-up radio
• Jean Franczyk, Head of Learning, Science Museum
• Roger Highfield, Science Editor, The Daily Telegraph
• Clare Jones, Consumer Editor, First News children’s Newspaper
• Helen Peavitt, Curator of Consumer Technology, Science Museum
• Dr Raj Persaud, Gresham professor for public understanding of psychiatry
• Dickon Ross, Editor, Flipside magazine, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

The winning products are on sale at the Science Museum Store and online at www.sciencemuseumstore.com.