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2 Ways to Get Creative with Robotics

Creative Play With Lego Robots Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners are natural engineers. They love sand castles, blocks, fairy houses, and other projects that support their creative, fantasy play. We support this natural engineering instinct in schools with building bricks, Legos, and sand and water tables. Yet, as students reach first grade and beyond, we remove all these activities from school and we expect them still be interested in engineering when they get… Read More

Category: John Heffernan, Science Tags: Engineering, Lego, Robotics, Robots, Science, STEM

Lego® Art in Western Mass

The Art of the Brick Through September 5th at the Springfield Museums If you build it, they will come. And New York artist Nathan Sawaya has built some amazing sculptures out of common LEGO® building bricks. The Art of the Brick features 29 whimsical three-dimensional works created from nearly one million colorful pieces. Sawaya’s attention to detail, scale, color and sense of action elevates this common toy to the status of art…. Read More