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Re: Lego for Africa
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Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:54:54 GMT
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Hi Joel and others!
Thank you for your thoughts and queries - first off - here's the first
addresses in the US -
Academy for Educational Development
AED Headquarters
1825 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20009-5721
Tel. 202-884-8000
Fax 202-884-8400
New York Office
100 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Tel. 212-243-1110
Fax 212-627-0407
Please mark parcels for attention SchoolNet Namibia c/o Jeff Coupe at the DC
head office.
I am waiting for confirmation on an I*EARN physical address in Australia which
may be used as a depot there. I am also desparately seeking Swedishlego network
contacts, in that we've established a good relation with Sida there to undertake
computer donation processes.
In lugnet.general, Joel Kuester writes:
> Hi,
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> I think this is a great idea, and I agree that Lego play does help to
> develop 3-d thinking, and I am even willing to donate some of my old Lego
> Bricks.
> I do have one problem with this tho, you mention packing old computers with
> Lego as the filler, and that may not be a very good idea. The Motherboard
> boxes should survive pretty decently without too much damage, but if you
> pack a monitor with Lego Bricks don't expect the monitor to make the trip in
> one piece. Lego settles in fairly dense way, and doesn't have much 'give'
> en masse. Any box impacts will transfer right through the Lego Bricks and
> that will break monitors with ease.
We've run a few test boxes typically used for shipping 1 cpu, keyboard, mouse
and 14" monitor, and put them on some severe bush roads for a few hundred kms,
without any significant damage - some minor scratching to screen, which we can
avoid by pasting 80gram weight paper on the screen. The lego settles snugly.
In shipping computers in a sea container (we've done this 3 times now) the
packing is done with great care, anyway, and once 220 boxes have been packed
into the container there is *little* room for movement.
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> Also, is there a plan to teach at least the basics of Lego play? Don't
> forget that we all get instructions with every Lego set, and it seems
Indeed! There are wonderful resources on the web to this effect, and given the
power of Mindstorms, we expect that quite a bit of intuitive development will
evolve. I recall lego in the sixties - before the advent of theme sets, and
peer pressure <grin> drove my modeling genes without any paper-based
instructions. I will of course make sure that various generic instructions
will go out with the bags of lego (like we do with paper airplane kits already <
grin>)!
> obvious to us how Lego works, but to some who may have never seen a Lego
> Brick, they may be unfathomable (at least for a little while, and that may
> keep many from exploring them further).
Cheers and thanks again!
Joris
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| (...) Or even better still... we can wait for this address! :) If it doesn't come through for some reason, I am more than happy to help out with this! Thanks... Mel (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) snip (...) snip (...) Hi, I think this is a great idea, and I agree that Lego play does help to develop 3-d thinking, and I am even willing to donate some of my old Lego Bricks. I do have one problem with this tho, you mention packing old (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)
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