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I just received the July-August Brickmaster magazine today, and on page 23 it
tells of a LEGO Castle Adventure that’s a touring exhibit. It starts on January
31, and guess where it starts...
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis!!! (Really nice for us Hoosiers)
Here’s what the page 23 blurb says:
LEGO Castle Adventure Exhibit Tour
Building Challenge!
We’re putting together one of the biggest LEGO projects ever, and we want you to
be a part of it!
LEGO Castle Adventure will be a huge, fun-packed touring exhibit filled with
castles, treasure, dragons, and lots of hidden LEGO surprises. It all starts at
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis on January 31st, 2009!
The LEGO Master Builders are creating lots of amazing new LEGO Castle models for
the exhibit...and they need your help to make the best one of all!
THE KNIGHTLY CHALLENGE
Imagine what it would be like to live in a castle! Who lives in castles, and
what do they do all day?
Show us your idea of what castle life would be like in a cool scene made from
your collection of LEGO bricks!
THE KNIGHTLY PRIZE
Out favorite scene of castle life will become the inspiration for a model in the
LEGO Castle Adventure exhibit tour, and the builder will win a trip for four to
see the exhibit’s grand opening at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis!
(Includes airfare and hotel costs only.)
3 additional winners will each receive a LEGO set of their choice worth up to
$100!
HOW TO ENTER:
1. Contest open only to LEGO Brickmaster subscribers and members of The
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis between the ages of 6 and 13.
2. Build a scene of life at a castle using pieces from your LEGO brick
collection!
3. Take 3-4 color photographs of your model from all sides. Only in-focus photos
and glossy photo-quality printouts will be accepted—no Polaroids, please!
4. Write an essay of 500 words or less about life inside your castle. Don’t
forget to tell us who lives there and what they do!
5. Send your photos, along with your name, mailing address, daytime telephone
number, and the name of your model to:
LEGO Castle
Adventure Challenge
P.O. Box 1625
Enfield, CT 06083-1625
All photos must be received by AUGUST 31st, 2008!
LEGO really knows how to overuse the exclamation mark, don’t they?
I’m going to try to see if IndyLUG can have any kind of
Castle display there. LEGO has given us a 7 month heads-up on this event, so
hopefully we can get some kind of AFOL involvement at this event.
David Gregory
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IndyLUG will be doing a LEGO workshop in Greencastle, Indiana on Sunday,
February 10.
Location:
Greencastle City Hall
1 N Locust St
Greencastle, IN 46135
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Come by to see LEGO creations by IndyLUG members, hear about building techniques
and ask all those incessant questions that we never get tired of.
This LEGO workshop is for people of all ages. Anyone, from kids who have just
learned how to click LEGO bricks together to adult LEGO fans, are welcome to
join us for a fun time of learning about the best toy ever made.
After the
workshop, IndyLUG members will meet at Mark’s house for the February meeting and
probably some other general nerdiness.
David Gregory
IndyLUG Secretary
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The January IndyLUG meeting will be on Saturday the 10th at 2:00 PM at Matt’s
house. (If you’ve never been to Matt’s place, or have never been
to an IndyLUG function and would like to join the club, please email me for
directions.)
Things we’ll be doing at the meeting:
• Considerations/nominations for club officers
• Character creation/fine tuning for those who want to play in Jeramy’s D&D
campaign at the February meeting
• Set draft of 2007 Advent Calendar, bring $13 to participate
Please note that this meeting will be on a Saturday instead of Sunday.
See you there!
David Gregory
IndyLUG Secretary
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:: Competition XI Press Release - For Immediate Release!
The School of Technology at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana and the
Evansville Chapter 73 of The Society of Manufacturing Engineers announce the
student Lego robotics competition XI titled "The Ascent". In this competition
autonomous robots (not remote controlled) will be required to scale to new
heights and perform a series of tasks to obtain points.
Registration is open to area middle, high school & college teams. Entries will
be limited to 30 teams. Each team MUST have four student members and one
mentoring adviser. One team per school will be admitted through October 26th,
2007. After that, multiple teams from the same school will be admitted on a
first-come-first-served basis until the 30-team limit is met. Deadline for ALL
registrations is November 2nd, 2007. Registration instructions are available at
the robotics competition web site located using the following address:
http://faculty.ivytech.edu/~scombs/cgi-bin/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Lego.CompetitionXI
Teams will receive the exact scope of the competition and programming
instructions from the official competition web site listed above on October
19th, 2007. The competition will be held November 17th, 2007. Registration will
begin at 8:00am at the North Entrance of the main campus building. The
competition will be held within the Vectren Auditorium from 9:00am-12:00pm.
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In lugnet.licensed, Tim David wrote:
> Do we need a lugnet.licensed.indiana ?
No. Indiana is a very powerful state in terms of LEGO use, but we're not (yet!)
powerful enough to license our state name. Thanks for asking!
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Brian Davis
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