# Press

# Little Robot Friends in the News, Reviews, Zeitgeist:

A list of where you might have seen us: Geek Dad, Toronto Life, CBC News, TechTO, TIFF Kids, Core77 Design Awards, and more!

Find us on Twitter: [@lilrobotfriend](https://twitter.com/LilRobotFriends "Little Robot Friends on Twitter") s or [#littlerobotfriends](https://twitter.com/hashtag/littlerobotfriends)

### 2019

- 04/2019: [Little Robot Friends receives $100K grant funding from the Women Entrepreneurship Fund](https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2019/04/minister-ng-announces-investment-in-women-entrepreneurs.html)
- 03/2019: [EdTech Cool Tools Finalist for Coding, Computer Science and Engineering solution](https://edtechdigest.com/2019-finalists-winners/)
- 01/2019: [Little Robot Friends receives Canada Media Fund Marketing Support for our product currently in development](https://www.cmf-fmc.ca/funded-projects/previously-funded?streamType=stream_E&displayTotals=false&pageSize=10&fiscalYear=2018-2019&Activity=Marketing#resultSet) Hooray!

### 2018

- 11/2018: [SheEO Canada Top 25 Ventures 2018](https://sheeo.world/2018-venture-annc/)
- 11/2018: [Futurpreneur - Interview with Ann Poochareon, CEO](https://www.futurpreneur.ca/en/2018/global-entrepreneurship-week-2018-breaking-barriers-with-women-entrepreneurs/)
- 07/2018: [Robots take over at Oak Bay school during TeacherCon](https://www.vicnews.com/community/video-robots-take-over-at-oak-bay-school-during-teachercon/)
- 07/2018: [Here and Now with Gill Deacon](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/here-and-now-1.3979995) - We were on the show to discuss the launch of TeacherCon with Canada Learning Code
- 01/2018: [Geek Dad - Teach Kids to Code with Empathy](https://geekdad.com/2018/01/little-robot-friends-teach-kids-code-empathy/)

### 2017

- 11/2017: [#movethedial Stories, Meet Ann Poochareon](https://movethedial.com/stories-hub/2017/10/20/maggie-bergeron-physiotherapist-to-tech-ceo-6y6hz-a5yzp-zb9y2-xardm-eb4p9-yab5n)
- 05/2017: [Core77 Runner Up Open Design Award 2017](https://designawards.core77.com/Open-Design/60097/Little-Robot-Friends)
- 05/2017: CBC News:
- 03/2017: [TechTO Demo of the Month - Little Robot Friends](https://startupheretoronto.com/sectors/technology/techto-demo-of-the-month-little-robot-friends/)
- 01/2017: [Toronto Life - TIFF digiPlaySpace](https://torontolife.com/culture/tiff-digiplayspace/)

### 2016 & earlier

- 10/2016: [EdutechChick - Meeting Little Robot Friends](http://www.edutechchick.com/stem_tech_for_kids/)
- 12/2014: [Gizmodo - Ingenious Gifts for People Who Love Science](https://io9.gizmodo.com/ingenious-gifts-for-people-who-love-science-1666931880)
- 11/2014: [PSFK - Make a Cute, Emotive Robot to Learn Code and Electronics](https://www.psfk.com/2014/11/aesthetec-open-source-coding-robot.html "PSFK - Make a Cute Robot to Learn Code and Electronics")
- 11/2013: How it all started: [Kickstarter - Little Robot Friends](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aesthetec/little-robot-friends)