STEMPlay Labs Launches in Chennai to Promote Play-Based Learning

By: WE staff | Monday, 27 October 2025

• Chennai-based education startup STEMPlay Labs has been formally launched
• The startup aims to make play the foundation of future learning
• Established by Aditi Prasad, an internationally renowned STEM education advocate

STEMPlay Labs, an edtech company based in Chennai has officially launched with a mission to make play the foundation for future learning.

Founded by Aditi Prasad, a well-known advocate of STEM education, the startup promotes the philosophy of "Swadeshi 2.0," the company creates Made-in-India, screen-free Made-for-India STEM toys for kids everywhere.

The startup will blend Indian innovation with global benchmarks to support kids in developing key 21st century competencies such as problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity, using game-based learning.

STEMPlay Labs launched two innovative products — Wonder Briks™, a brand of patent-pending side-locking construction bricks that promote imagination and open-ended play, and PictoMath™, a visual format math card game that encourages young learners aged six and up to engage with numbers. Both products are designed to grow with the child so they can provide sustainable, long-term learning.

The company's strategy is based on four core pillars: screen less learning to foster creativity and focus, learning through experiential exploration to generate curiosity, skills development for reasoning and collaboration, and a pragmatic focus on Made-in-India, global-in-vision philosophy that delivers native design to the world.

Tamil Nadu continues to lead the way in women entrepreneurship with nearly half of all known startups founded or led by women.

STEMPlay Labs shares this achievement as woman-founded company developing education solutions of global relevance that reimagine learning through play.

Aditi Prasad, Co-founder, STEMPlay Labs and Founder, Indian Girls Code, is a law scholar turned ed-tech entrepreneur. She has a B.S.L LL.B from the Indian Law Society and an M.P.P. from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

She is a TEDx speaker, a UNESCO Policy Forum keynote speaker, and was identified by the Government of Singapore as one of 15 Young Societal Leaders globally. By Indian Girls Code, she has empowered poor girls to become career professionals in the field of STEM.

Aditi reiterated that education should start from curiosity and not textbooks, which is the vision of STEMPlay Labs to engage education as fun, experiential, and inclusive for every child.