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Originally Posted by Lisa Perez
Anyway, getting to the point, what topics, besides what I have already mentioned, would you suggest that I could do for the lessons/challenges?
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I'm working at a lego camp right now that sounds similar to the program that you're running. Most of the kids at this camp are younger than middle school, but the same challenges might be useful. One of the skills that is stressed towards the beginning is the ability to build sturdily. One of the challenges is to build a tower of a certain height (around 4" I think) that can support the weight of one of the teachers. Another similar one is to build a car which can be dropped from about ankle height and stay in one piece. One more complicated challenge is to build a line following robot. They also built robots to play tug of war (attaching string between the robots and driving in opposite directions).