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Thai Education Innovation Reaches the Global Stage: “The STEAM Design Process & Starfish Maker” Selected as One of the World’s 100 Education Innovations in the HundrED Global Collection 2027
Starfish Education brings pride to Thailand’s education community as its innovation, The STEAM Design Process & Starfish Maker, has been selected as one of 100 education innovations from around the world in the HundrED Global Collection 2027. It was chosen from 846 submissions, reflecting the strength of a learning approach that encourages children to think, solve problems and create through hands-on practice, and that can be adapted to a wide range of educational contexts.
On 12 November 2026 in Madrid, Spain, HundrED, an international education innovation organisation, announced the HundrED Global Collection 2027 at the HundrED Innovation Summit 2026, held alongside the Global Education Forum (GEF) Madrid 2026. The Global Collection Awards Ceremony was livestreamed online for audiences around the world.
This year, The STEAM Design Process & Starfish Maker by Starfish Education was selected as one of the 100 education innovations featured in the Global Collection 2027. The Collection recognises innovations that stand out for their impact on learning and their potential to scale. This year, 846 innovations were submitted for consideration. A total of 217 HundrED Academy members from 70 countries took part in the review, completing 3,586 reviews before the final selection.
The innovation is presented under two key themes of the Global Collection 2027, whose focus this year is Human Flourishing: Personal Growth and Wellbeing, which supports learners’ growth and wellbeing, and Enabling Learning Environments, which creates settings that support learning. This reflects the innovation’s role in developing learners in a well-rounded way and in giving children the opportunity to learn through real experience in environments that support creativity and problem-solving.
The STEAM Design Process & Starfish Maker is a learning innovation that combines the STEAM Design Process with a Makerspace learning environment. It gives learners the chance to explore their interests, ask questions, work out solutions, plan, build and refine their work through a five-step process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, and Reflect & Redesign.
At the heart of the innovation is a design that makes learners owners of their own learning. They connect knowledge to real problems and real situations while developing creativity, analytical thinking, problem-solving and collaboration. Schools can adapt the process to their own context and available resources, with no need for expensive equipment.
Dr. Nanthaporn Janchalia Seributra, President of Starfish Education and creator and developer of the STEAM Design Process and Starfish Maker, said:
“We are deeply proud that an education innovation we initiated and developed in Thailand has been selected as one of the 100 education innovations in the world in the HundrED Global Collection 2027. From its beginnings at Starfish School, our innovation now reaches more than 80,000 children in more than 800 schools. This shows that Thai education innovation can create wide-reaching impact and has the potential to change learning at a global level.”
The HundrED Global Collection 2027 features 100 selected innovations from 45 countries, scaling to 212 countries and territories and reaching more than 152 million learners overall. This year’s focus is Human Flourishing: helping learners grow with quality, with opportunities to learn and develop their potential, with positive relationships, and in environments that support learning.
This selection is another important step for Thai education innovation developed through real-world work. It shows that a learning approach that lets children think, experiment, create and improve their own work can create value and gain international recognition, and take part in the global exchange of ideas for improving education.
For more information
HundrED Global Collection 2027: https://hundred.org/en/collections/hundred-global-collection-2027
HundrED Innovation Summit 2026: https://hundred.org/en/events/hundred-innovation-summit-2026
Global Collection 2027: https://doi.org/10.58261/KOYM2088
Starfish Education: www.starfishedu.org and www.facebook.com/StarfishEdu
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