Karri Bowen-Poole: Making space for play

<p>Karri carved out a niche using her expertise as an educator and a parent to customize playroom designs to meet families’ needs. She put an ad in a local paper and started receiving phone calls from parents desperate to get their kids off technology and engaged in other forms of entertainment. Smart Playrooms aims to design playrooms that will engage children in open-ended creative thinking to promote independence, creativity, problem-solving and cooperation.</p>