LEGO

[Jimmy Cao]

Do you have a RX? If you do, build a small robot and demonstrate some of the robot's capabilities. Show them what they can do with the RX and mindstorms.

Or show some videos from last year's FLL game.

[MC_FALCON_842]

Ok thanx I'll do that and maybe I can even get some of the other volunteers to help out. This has been a real help. I guess I'll let you guys know how it goes. =0)

[chris31]

I used to have my own Mindstorm kit that I bought after seeing a teacher demo off the schools kit. I liked it so much that I donated my kit after I no longer had a need to use it myself. I small working demostration will make the kids interested really fast.

[MC_FALCON_842]

There are about 50 kids that go in every day, of those kids there are only about six or so that I think might be interested. I am going to go and show them some FLL videos and if they seem attracted to it I'm going to go out and find everything I need to get them started. I'm hoping that I won't have any trouble. Hopefully the kids do find it "cool" so that they want to do it themselves.

[Tapoore]

If you need some good videos of FLL there are some of Mindstorms Mayhem and the Flying Geeks at Mindstorms Mayhem's website.

Let us know how it goes.

[MC_FALCON_842]

These videos are really good. Thanks for sharing. I will make sure to show them to the kids and I’ll tell you what they thought. Congrats to your team.

The Carl Hayden Falcon Robotics team recently hosted the 4th annual FLL tournament and I was one of the volunteers. It was fantastic to see how into it these kids were so I thought that it would be great if the kids at the community center got a chance to experience it too. I’m sure that a lot of these kids have heard of Lego but they’re the kinds of kids that think that if they get involved with anything that is somewhat scholastic they might be classified as nerds. I am hoping to break through that and show them how fun it is to be a "nerd".

[Josh Goodman]

Star Wars Legos worked for me...