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Legos get you into college
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:49:40 GMT
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It's not exactly Mindstorms-related, but pretty interesting:

  http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0201c.htm

Colorado College is instituting a Lego building entrance
examination. I'm not making this up.

Jonathan

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  Re: Legos get you into college
 
It's for real folks. I have the Denver Post here in my hands...and I live in Colorado Springs. I'll have to wonder on over to the college and snoop around. This sounds pretty cool. (...) Jim West NIC Team Lead NIC Oracle Developer and DBA in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Legos get you into college
 
Yes, but note that they are not a technical college, and that they are doing this to recruit minority students to fill a quota. Would you want to be operated on by a medical doctor who got his degree based on how well he could assemble legos? John. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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