Sugar: A collaborative, free/libre open-source software learning platform for children

Sugar Labs contributes to and helps maintain the award-winning Sugar Learning Platform, which promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities.

SUGAR

Learning software for children

Sugar is an activity-focused, free/libre open-source software learning platform for children. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is grounded in the culture of free software (FLOSS)

A glimpse of Sugar...

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GET SUGAR

Easy installation along with robust builds.

Sugar on a stick
(SOAS)

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The full Sugar environment on any computer at any time from a thumb drive.

  • Sugar on a Stick requires a thumb drive with at least 2GB storage and downloading ~650MB.
  • (Sugar on a Stick is available for free and does not permanently affect your computer.)
  • How to create a Sugar stick
  • Boot SOAS

GNU/Linux
Install

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The full Sugar environment installed on a GNU/Linux computer.

Sugarizer

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A taste of Sugar within your browser.

Trisquel

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The full Sugar environment installed on Trisquel GNU/Linux computer.

  • Trisquel on a Sugar Toast is a live/installable iso image that can be run from a CD/DVD or be used to load a USB drive with data persistence.
  • How to get Sugar on a Trisquel

Raspberry Pi

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The full Sugar environment on a Raspberry Pi.

Flatpak

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A selection of Sugar Activities available as Flatpak applications for all desktop environments and GNU/Linux distributions.

For more details, click the link below!

ACTIVITIES

Explore few of our many other finest activities

Check out the remaining hundreds of activities!

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INTEGRATION AND INQUIRY

See how Sugar integrates into your classroom.

About Us

At Sugar Labs, we make a collection of tools that learners use to explore, discover, create, and reflect. We are non-profit and led by volunteers. We distribute these tools freely and encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their learning. Sugar Labs, a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization, had its origins in the One Laptop per Child project. The mission of Sugar Labs is to support the Sugar community of users and developers and establish regional, autonomous “Sugar Labs” around the world to help learners “learn how to learn” by tailoring Sugar to local languages and curricula.

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    Activities Downloaded

  • 3,000,000+

    Sugar Users

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    Translated languages of Sugar Labs