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Re: Pictures of club meeting "De Bouwsteen"
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Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:58:47 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.pt, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
> 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... ;-)
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> 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.
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 interest, and eventually "memberizing" them).
I'm thinking of proposing another contest, this one with MOCs made at home
and then shown on the show. The advantage is we get more time to work, and
so the outcome can be somewhat better looking.
> 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.
Has he got a webpage, or DAT instructions for the calculator? It looks
simple enough for me to make a copy of it and show off in August (credits
will be assured).
> 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.
Kids are kids everywhere on Earth, heh? :-)
I tried a similar solution on the last meeting, it just did not work out too
good. Should I place more than one controller at a time in a layout? Will
the train move faster if I do so? I tend to lose speed when increasing track
lenght beyond 6 m, is it normal?
> 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.
Would you say it is risky allowing kids to control *different* sections of
the same loop? I mean, it can work for their team spirit, they will have to
communicate with each other trying to prevent accidents. Plus I save on
track... ;-)
Digital control is soooo needed... Every kid would be able to use its own
train, in a much more realistic way. Would't it be great?
> 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).
Curiously, I found that some of my girl friends are more willing to retry
LEGO building as adults than boys are. Apparently, they get *re-interested*
sooner too (the feminine mind is always a step ahead of ours, isn't it? ;-)
> 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.
How much time (minimum, there is no max!) should a child be allowed to
"rule" over the track? Should it depend on age?
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> It's a private shop.
Then we can invite shops to sell their sets in meetings. Which is good, as
long as we can gather enough people to buy stuff :-)
Pedro
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