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Re: Pictures of club meeting "De Bouwsteen"
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In lugnet.loc.pt, Pedro Silva writes:
> I had already seen some of these pics, but had not realised what they were
> for sure. It is awesome! Great show!
> I liked one item in particular: besides the static displays, there are kids
> playing football in a table, and plenty of parts sorted in another. This
> means participation - and that is good to captivave new "addicts" to our
> LEGO habit... ;-)
Yes, we have several other participaton activities. Those kids sitting on
the floor with lots of bricks arount them, is the building contest for
children we organise every club show. The best entries are awarded with a
small Lego set.
The guy on image http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=142200 held
public lectures on "Clever Building Techniques". The images following this
one show some examples of his demonstration models. On the image showing
himself he's holding a Lego calculator in his hands, based on the property
that a (car) differential gear adds up the rotation of the two "outgoing"
axles into the "incomming" axle.
Most of the times, I'm responsible for the train layout. This is operated by
children too. A Lego Technic Polarity Reversing Switch allows them to make
the train go forward, stop or reverse. I keep the contoler unit out of reach
for them. I cover up the yellow knob with some plates, otherwise it's too
tempting for the most dearing boys to sneakly turn up the speed and make the
train derail.
I have a double track (one loop within the other) making two completely
independend tracks so two kids can operate two different trains at the same
time. I've found that girls find it equaly attractive to operate the trains
as boys do, but I've noticed that girls get too ashamed to keep doing so
much younger than is the case with boys (they enter their "Dark Age" sooner).
It's very rewarding to led the children operate the trains in such a way,
more so that doing it all by yourself. When they want to swich trains, they
have to work together with me and back the train up into the yard, while I
operate the switches. When I first started do layouts in such a way, I was
pleasently surprised that almost all children acted very responsively and
helped me by explaining the operation procedures to eachother when another
child took over.
> Thank you for sharing these images - they come as inspiration for our
> future, sort of an aim. It will be great when we are able to gather so many
> people with a common interest, and devote ourselves entirely to it for a day.
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> BTW, what is that display "10% off"? Is it from TLC, or private shop?
> Because it would be a good idea to sell LEGO in meetings, since some of us
> have trouble finding LEGO in their surroundings.
It's a private shop.
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) PLUG has gathered 2 small sets to giveaway in a contest so far, only we still have no idea what kind of a contest. This may be a good idea, having kids doing thir own MOCs and then voting for the best (this way we'll be increasing non-members (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.pt)
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| (...) Hi Manfred! I had already seen some of these pics, but had not realised what they were for sure. It is awesome! Great show! I liked one item in particular: besides the static displays, there are kids playing football in a table, and plenty of (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.pt)
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