Sugar Labs

Whether you're a young learner, teacher, or a budding developer, we believe Sugar Labs has something for you. Read on to learn more about our award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and how to join our diverse community of teachers and learners.

Our mission: Authentic problem solving

The world needs more tools and communities for learn-by-doing education

Learners and teachers already have plenty of tools to help them with instruction-based learning. And despite the known benefits, there are very few tools and communities that encourage project-based learning. Sugar Labs's unique mission is to cultivate a community of teachers and learners engaged in learn by doing and, collaboratively, create tools explicitly made for authentic problem solving.

Challenging and fun: It's hard fun!

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Learning isn't easy, but it should be fun. The Sugar Labs communinity works hard to make tools that are both challenging and fun. Hard fun is the sweet spot!

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Sugar Labs by the numbers

Sugar Labs, founded in 2008, has had an impact on the lives of many. Here are some of the statistics we are tracking.

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    Mentors helping youth learn in programs like Google Code-In (GCI) and Google Summer of Code
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    Problem-solving tasks completed by students ages 13-17.
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    Projects for teaching and learning created by Sugar Labs students and teachers.
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    Kids whose lives have been enriched by using the Sugar Learning Platform
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    Languages our educational software has been translated into

What we hear

This is what we've heard about Sugar Labs from students, teachers, parents, and growing developers.

EXPERIENCE SUGAR

Our educational tools can be experienced in a number of ways. Try the one that's best for you.

Music Blocks

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Create musical code with the browser-based visual programming language Music Blocks.

Turtle Blocks

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Explore math and computation through beautiful, artful geometry.

Try now on any device with Sugarizer

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Get a taste of Sugar with Sugarizer, which opens in your browser with no installation. Alternatively, you may install Sugarizer onto your mobile or desktop device via Google Play or F-Droid (Android), the App Store (iOS), and the Microsoft Store (Windows).

Desktop/laptop bootable drive

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With Sugar on a Stick (SOAS), you can experience the full Sugar Learning Platform on any computer at any time from a bootable thumb drive.

Desktop/laptop installation

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Sugar Learning Platform can be installed as a full operating system on most desktop and laptop computers.

Try Trisquel for full freedom

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Get all the benefits of a bootable/installation drive on the fully free and well maintained Trisquel distro.


Try Sugar on Raspberry Pi

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The full Sugar environment on a Raspberry Pi (RPi).


Convenient installation via Flatpak

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Do you use a GNU/Linux? Available for any distribution, individual Sugar activities can be conveniently installed via Flatpak.



Already using Sugar? We have many activities for you!

The Sugar Learning Platform is a complete environment for teaching and learning, which includes individual activities. If you're already using the Sugar Desktop Environment, then you can install from the activities below, which has links to some of our most popular activities.

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Finance

Roleplay with money

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Maze

Have fun with progressive challenges

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Measure

Use your computer to measure things in the physical world

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TurtleBlocks3D

Are you already using TurtleBlocks? Try it in three dimensions!

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Words

Compose and share your ideas

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Ruler

Measure and explore math

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StartChart

Explore numbers and information in charts

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Recall

Test your memory with this fun game

Check out the remaining hundreds of activities!

We have hundreds of activities to explore.



Important: Please know that in order to install and try them, you need to be running the Sugar Desktop Environment. If you don't have that already, please consider your other options to explore Sugar: Try Sugar!

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