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Subject: 
NGLTC LEGO tree at the Festival of Trees
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Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:42:32 GMT
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For the past 4 years the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) has sponsored a display at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Festival of Trees. This is an event that consists of hundreds of decorated Christmas trees, wreaths, events, rides and various other displays. To help make our tree special each year we have incorporated the help of the patients of CHOA to actually build the LEGO ornaments that are displayed on our tree.



This year is our 5th year of being a part of the Festival of Trees and I wanted to make it stand out from all of our previous displays. So in order to “step it up a notch” not only are the ornaments made out of LEGO but the entire tree is made from LEGO elements. The tree stands just under 9’ tall with a base of 6’ wide, there are approximately 23,000 green bricks and plates that make up the actual tree. The tree is built around a steel frame so that it can stand strong and hold the weight of the heavy branches. The branches can be removed for transporting the tree. Very little glue is involved, only on the trunk of the branches themselves, all the needles are unglued.



Along with the LEGO tree we have four table top trees, these are 4’ tall artificial trees each decorated with ornaments made by different children’s groups. CHOA patients, 3rd grade elementary school class, Girl Scout / Browne troop & 1st – 5th grade Sunday school class each helped contribute to the table top trees as well as the main tree.



You can see some pictures of our display from yesterday’s setup.

jt



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