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To all, It is time for my annual (3rd year) Summer LEGO Camp through my local Parks and Rec program. Since the last camp (URL) I have relocated from Cedar City, Utah to Spanish Fork, Utah. After the move, I found that Spanish Fork had a more (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.ulug, FTX)
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| | Survey on LEGOengineering.com - Managing LEGO Materials
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LEGOengineering.com is working on an article on how educators organize and manage their LEGO Materials. To help us gather ideas from teachers and after school program leaders we've put together a survey to find out how you store and sort your (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.edu)
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| | Survey on LEGOengineering.com - Managing LEGO Materials
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LEGOengineering.com is working on an article on how educators organize and manage their LEGO Materials. To help us gather ideas from teachers and after school program leaders we've put together a survey to find out how you store and sort your (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.edu)
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| | 8 hours, 10 NXT's, 10 kids ,,, Here we go!
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Saturday Academy just got our shipment of 12 NXT's. I've got 2 one-week summer classes this week and next that I can test these on. Of course, I still have our tried and true RCXs to fall back on. And so I wonder. Sorting, installing software then (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: Advanced Mindstorms Robotics Summer Camp
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(...) So they have *some* background, and you can just jump in? I'm wondering how basic a start you need. (...) Well, a *really* simple way of doing this is to have four robots sitting at the corners of a rectangular enclosure. Start one, and it has (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.edu)
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| | Advanced Mindstorms Robotics Summer Camp
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Hi, I'm in the process of developing a summer camp called Advanced STEPS (Science Tehcnology and Engineering Preview) here at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. This is a follow on camp to one the participants were involved in as 7th graders. We are (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.edu)
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| | Lego Teams with ALC to Open Education Centers in North America
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(URL) LEGO Group, through its LEGO(R) Education division, has signed an exclusive Master License Agreement with ALC Education Group, LLC of New York to bring the LEGO Education Center concept to the United States and Canada. The LEGO Education (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Chirality
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(...) Well, if you want to show the lone pair of electrons you could. (URL) is a link to a pdf. I didn't think that sending you a 385 kB e-mail message was sucha great idea:) I thought the model was a neat idea. Unfortunately, one of the reviewers (...) (19 years ago, 10-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: Chirality
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(...) Excellent Chris, what did you use for the bonds and what did you use for the atoms. And were you also able to show double covalent bonds. (which is something that would be hard to show) I would love to read the article if you want. I get so (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: Chirality
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(...) [snip] (...) Actually, you can model Lewis Structures* with LEGO too. I sent an article describing the LEGO-Lewis Model to the Journal of Chemical Education, but they rejected it :( A reviewer suggested that I re-write the "article" as an (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: Chirality
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(...) There are also some DNA models (chiral superstructure) in Brickshelf : (URL) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: Chirality
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(...) Hi Anita, Thank you for your answer, it has made my day brighter as I like the ideas you talk about. - Being open minded as you are ("I will never look at my bricks the same") - Sharing ideas - LEGO as a smart toy and teaching tool Didier (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.edu)
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| | Taking up 'Revenge of the Brick'
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I've gotten a lot of interest in animation after showning several kids 'Revenge of the Brick' www.treehouseanimation.com/rotb including "The Making of...". I have several kids using MLCAD, L3PAO, and POV Ray to create walk sequences. This is all (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.edu)
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| | Re: Look what you can build in twenty minutes!
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(...) For you, Scott, anything. I've been thinking about publishing something in the mathematical literature, but I'd love to write a more accessible article for a general (brick-obsessed) audience. It surprises me how little I have read about Lego (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.edu)
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(...) <snip> Great stuff Teddy! I love this math stuff, keep it coming! Cyndi (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: Look what you can build in twenty minutes!
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(...) Geez, if my instructor used LEGO to demonstrate integration, I'm sure I wouldn't have struggled as much in my university math courses... (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: Look what you can build in twenty minutes!
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(...) Awesome Ted! (Hey, sorry I've been so aloof, even to you my closest AFOL neighbor. I haven't even thanked you yet for the bloody Christmas card!) :) But on topic, I must admit, I personally would use those in a Pirate display. For sure! ;) (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Re: Look what you can build in twenty minutes!
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(...) (snip) (...) Teddy, This is Cool, and a great story! Any thoughts about contributing an article about this to BrickJournal? Scott Lyttle (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| | Look what you can build in twenty minutes!
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Here's the result of a twenty-minute building frenzy: (URL) What is it? A big blue castle? A very wobbly ocean? A sombrero? No! It's a cosine. Really and truly. Here's how I built it in twenty minutes: 1) I didn't build it. 2) I had students build (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Instructions Needed for 9725
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(...) Have them call Pitsco, the set is sold there: (URL) is an activity pack for this set as well: (URL) don't know if it contains building instructions for the basic 4 models. -Rob. XPost to .edu and .dacta (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta)
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