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Re: LEGO Cool Kids - looking for innovative kids
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:58:19 GMT
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Howdy,
I sent this to Dan, but thought to share it with the group.
There is a group of kids I work with
who are all incredible people! Nolan, who is diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome
and who creates
some amazing stuff with LEGO and enjoys making 3D environments on the computer.
Andrew,
despite some physical handicaps has been working on making mechanical hands and
is currently
creating a large Easter Island Head out of bricks. Nathan, who studies
philosophy and is currently
building a recreation of the Temple of Ur. There are some great students at the
Ada County Boys and Girls Club as well, but the one student I have to recommend
is Nic Perner.
Nic is 15 years old, and is one of the most mature and intelligent students I
have had the pleasure to
meet. The other day, he dropped by my office, and I asked him if he could build
a working "seed planter"
out of the parts in a particular LEGO kit, and he had it refined in 45 minutes
flat.
He does extensive graphics work, including a thorough knowledge of POV RAY,
Adobe
Photoshop and 3DMax. (Here is one frame of a movie that he authored demonstating
gear trains- http://www.edventures.com/contest/gearanim.gif, and you can
download
the AVI file at http://edventures.com/content/nic.html).
He recently won 1st place in the regional BPA computer aided graphics
competition (and is competing in State on March 8). In addition he does fair bit
of programming,
working with our VR equipment, and knows C and PASCAL. (Well, he claims PASCAL
is
lame). :^)
Nic Perner is a rounded person.. He has a medium sized trebuchet in his garage.
And he has built some high flying rockets. Nic is an active member of the
National Honor Society, and he is very involved in
jump rope competitions...most recently he did 3 jump rope performances in
Spokane and 4 performances in the Boise area. He attended a recent national jump
rope clinic in San Jose, captured medals at the National Competition in Orlando,
and is the *sixth* fastest male in the nation in jump rope!
I have hired Nic to teach engineering concepts to younger students, and Nic
volunteers teach jump rope to elementary school kids once a week for community
service
Nic is one of the most talented LEGO builders I have ever met! One of his
projects was featured on
"Popular Mechanics for Kids"He has an extensive body of LEGO work...including
capturing a first
place in 1998's Ancient Time's building contest, Cyberplace's Robot Wars
Competition in his division, a working LEGO trebuchet and other seige
weapons...in fact I have been stumped finding some problem he could not solve
with LEGO
building! One of the VPs of Pitsco-Dacta visited us and looked at one of Nic's
robotic hands, and *demanded*
to meet Nic!
Nic Perner is an awesome person, and is deserving of your attention.
Richard
rwright@pcsedu.com
www.edventures.com
Arianne Vena wrote:
> My name is Ari Vena and I am an associate producer with LEGO Direct.
> Recently we launched Cool Kids, an area of LEGO.com featuring kids
> (8-14years old)who are making great strides in their particular talents or
> areas of interest, whether they be academic, artistic, musical, scientific,
> literary, athletic, political and social activism--you name it! Right now we
> are looking for kids who build, invent, design and innovate using LEGO and
> other tools. All suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
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