Singapore, 22 October 2026 — Mujong is pleased to share that its young founder, Kiki Boo, has received a nomination from her primary school for the Ministry of Education’s prestigious Centre-Based Advanced Module, organised by the Gifted Education Branch of the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

The nomination places Kiki among approximately 2% of her cohort identified for the centre-based provision under Singapore’s refreshed approach to supporting pupils with higher academic abilities and particular areas of academic strength.

From 2027, the Ministry of Education will progressively replace the existing Gifted Education Programme model with a broader framework for supporting higher-ability learners.

Under the refreshed framework, approximately 10% of each cohort will have access to enhanced school-based learning opportunities, up from about 7% previously. Within this broader group, approximately 2% of the cohort will be identified for the more intensive Centre-Based Advanced Modules, conducted at designated centres across Singapore.

This centre-based provision represents the highest level of academic stretch within the refreshed primary-school framework.

Unlike the traditional Gifted Education Programme, where selected pupils transferred to one of nine designated GEP primary schools, pupils under the refreshed model will remain in their own schools while attending centre-based modules separately.

The Centre-Based Advanced Modules include weekly advanced learning opportunities during term time, with modules in areas such as English, Mathematics and Science, as well as an interdisciplinary module conducted during the school holidays. The programme is intended to extend learning beyond the regular curriculum and provide pupils with opportunities to investigate ideas more deeply, make connections across disciplines and engage with intellectually demanding problems.

For Mujong, Kiki’s nomination carries a special significance.

Mujong itself began from a child’s curiosity.

Created as a new approach to learning through play, Mujong encourages children to recognise patterns, formulate strategies, experiment with possibilities and connect ideas across conventional subject boundaries. Its development has always been guided by the belief that children are capable not merely of absorbing knowledge, but of questioning, discovering, creating and building ideas of their own.

Kiki’s academic journey and her journey as the young founder of Mujong have therefore never been regarded as separate pursuits. Both reflect the same underlying philosophy: that education is at its most powerful when curiosity is given room to wander, disciplines are allowed to intersect and children are trusted with intellectually meaningful challenges.

Her nomination is especially meaningful as the 2026 Primary 3 cohort is among the first to experience MOE’s refreshed approach to identifying and developing higher-ability learners.

Mujong regards the nomination not simply as an academic accolade, but as encouragement for Kiki to continue doing what has driven her journey thus far: remaining curious, asking difficult questions, exploring widely and, above all, enjoying the process of learning.

We are immensely proud of you, Kiki.

The adventure continues.

About Mujong

Mujong is an educational tabletop system built around the philosophy that meaningful learning can emerge through curiosity, play, strategy and interdisciplinary exploration.

Developed from an idea first conceived by its young founder, Kiki Boo, Mujong seeks to create learning experiences in which children do more than search for the correct answer. They observe, reason, experiment, adapt and discover new possibilities.

Mujong believes that the most enduring form of education is not simply learning more, but learning to think more deeply.

The nomination described above is an individual educational achievement of Mujong’s founder and does not constitute or imply any endorsement of Mujong or its products by the Ministry of Education or the Government of Singapore.

Something lighter is in the air… meet the newest member of the MUJONG family: MUJONG Air. Smaller. Lighter. Same game. Same fun. Made to go wherever your music takes you.

It’s still early days — we don’t have a price, ship date, or all the details on exactly how it’ll differ mechanically from Mujong Classic beyond size and weight, just yet. But after months of development, including a supply-chain trip that put our team in a Chaoshan railway station and a Shenzhen makerspace, we’re so excited to finally show you a glimpse.

Coming soon to kiki.sg. Stay tuned!

Supply chain meeting, first stop: 潮汕 (Chaoshan)! Building a lighter version of an existing product sounds simple from the outside — just use less material — but in practice it means real legwork: a supply-chain trip to China, kicking off at Chaoshan Railway Station as we start a manufacturing-focused itinerary.

Next stop is Chaihuo Makerspace in Shenzhen, a well-known makerspace with deep experience turning early-stage hardware ideas into manufacturable products — exactly the kind of partner we need as we work out how to redesign Mujong for weight and portability rather than simply reordering the same molds.

Press features and launch events make for better photographs than a supply-chain meeting at a railway station, but this trip might be just as important to what comes next — the unglamorous middle where “we should build a lighter version” turns into logistics, freight, and factory conversations. More soon!

Every version of Mujong so far has been the same physical object at its core: a case, a set of tiles, a board — sturdy, complete, and, by design, not exactly pocket-sized. That’s a reasonable trade-off for a game meant to live on a classroom shelf or a family’s living-room table. It’s a much less reasonable one for a family trying to bring Mujong along on a trip, or a teacher moving between classrooms with a bag already full of sheet music and instruments.

We’ve carried Mujong Classic everywhere this past year — piano showrooms, conference booths, school classrooms — case by case, box by box, by a team that includes an eight-year-old. That’s exactly the pattern that got us thinking: what if there were a lighter way to bring Mujong wherever the music takes you?

So we’ve started developing a smaller, lighter version of Mujong, built around the same underlying game but designed to travel. It’s still early days, but we’re excited about where this is headed — stay tuned for updates as it develops!

Kiki and KC’s story has crossed into Hong Kong’s Chinese-language press! We’re sharing a clipping today from 信報 — the Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong’s oldest Chinese-language financial daily, founded in 1973 — covering the same father-daughter AI-assisted learning story that Business Insider reported a few weeks ago, this time for a Hong Kong readership.

What began as a simple experiment between a parent and child exploring AI-assisted music learning has now travelled across different countries, languages, and communities. We’ve redacted and adapted the circulated copy of the clipping out of respect for personal privacy considerations relating to certain event attendees.

Just a day after our first birthday, this feels like a lovely way to keep the celebrations going. Thank you 信報!

Today, Mujong turns one! One year ago, Mujong began as a little idea powered by music, curiosity, and a child’s imagination.

This past year we’ve been so lucky to have so many people in our corner: the educators who opened their classrooms, the musicians and teachers who offered guidance, the students who made Mujong come alive in practice, the parents who trusted us with their children’s musical development, and the supporters and fans who shared, cheered, and stood beside us from day one. Thank you all.

From one tiny musical tile… to a growing movement of play, creativity, and learning. This is only Year One. The orchestra is just warming up.

Big news this morning: Business Insider has published an as-told-to essay, reported by Lee Chong Ming, under KC’s own byline — “My 8-year-old and I vibe-coded an app in 3 hours. AI is moving fast, so I figured it’s better to start her early.”

The piece recounts how KC and Kiki used a range of AI tools to build an app together in a single afternoon, framed around KC’s broader view that AI literacy is worth introducing early — provided it comes with guardrails rather than unsupervised access. It’s not a feature about Mujong the product so much as a piece about AI-assisted learning and parenting, with Kiki’s fluency and confidence as the through-line — and we’re thrilled it’s found a home with a globally recognised outlet.

Thank you to Business Insider and to everyone who’s shared it so far!

Today we’re introducing our most deliberately simple product yet: Mujong Baby Mode, a stripped-down way to play that asks for exactly one prerequisite skill — the ability to count to four.

Zero. Kosong. 零. சுழி. No musical background needed — in English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil, reflecting Singapore’s own linguistic mix right back at the audience it’s built for. The mechanics stay true to Mujong’s core loop — draw a tile, discard a tile — but are rebuilt around note values from a half to four beats, with the goal of building complete bars in common 4/4 time. Where Mujong Classic asks players to already grasp clefs, key signatures, and rhythm notation, Baby Mode asks only that a player can count and match.

Our tagline for it says it all: simple to start, hard to stop. Baby Mode isn’t a watered-down toy version of Mujong — it’s a genuinely different on-ramp, for players (and parents) who found Mujong Classic’s learning curve a real barrier. Up next: a Sight-reading Challenge and additional levels, so watch this space!

We’re chuffed to share that Hatch and Hustle — a platform built around entrepreneurship and youth resilience — has featured Kiki in a post titled simply “Singapore’s youngest 8-year-old entrepreneur.”

What we love about this feature is its angle: rather than asking readers to buy a game, Hatch and Hustle used Kiki’s story to make a bigger argument about how children are raised and educated. “Maybe it’s time we stop raising kids to just graduate and chase ‘safe’ jobs,” the post reads, alongside the observation that “the world looks different now, maybe we prepare them differently too.”

Thank you to the Hatch and Hustle community for such a warm reception — the comments have been wonderful to read.

Today, Mujong took the stage at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneur Summit & Awards, held at The St. Regis Singapore and organised by Entrepreneur Asia Pacific in partnership with Entrepreneur Magazine, ACE (Action Community for Entrepreneurship), and EY. It marks a real evolution for us — from Edutainment startup to Edutech startup — as we debuted Mujong Digital, a software companion to our original physical tile game, to a room of angel investors, venture capitalists, private equity investors, and crowdfunding platforms.

The day’s most memorable moment was completely unplanned. During a main-stage panel, Kiki worked up the nerve to ask a question of the panellists. One of them, Jelmer David Ikink of Foxmont Capital, was visibly moved enough by the moment that he gifted her his own red “Entrepreneur” figurine on the spot, in recognition of the question and the eight-year-old who’d asked it. We won’t forget that.

Thank you to everyone at Entrepreneur Asia Pacific for having us in the room. Post-CNY is going to be busy — more soon!