A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to have the chance to head back to the middle school where I worked for 14 years to help an outstanding and…Read more
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LEGO Ev3 Robotics – The Teacher Corner
LEGO Ev3 Robotics – The Teacher Corner Are you interested in LEGO Mindstorms robotics, engineering, and computational thinking? Come along and learn how you could engage your students in…Read more
How to Make Personalized LEGO Nametag
One of the activities that I will be using in my 212 STEAM Labs to help the STEAMsters get to know one another since they are coming from different schools…Read more
LEGO EV3 Programming Tip: The Power of the Comment Block
Don’t overlook the use of LEGO EV3 Comment blocks for your programming. Over time we have learned the value in using these blocks to help organize, sort, and label our…Read more
Rub Your Eyes, This is Real! FIRST World Championships
The sparkle in the eye. The one that causes you to stop blinking or perhaps blink a bit faster than normal. That moment when you or a kid…Read more
The Powerful Learning in Making a LEGO Duck
One of the activities I have used time and time again is building a LEGO duck to showcase the power of hands on learning, thinking with parameters, and to revisit…Read more
LEGO EV3 Tutorial 8 UPDATE: Data and Loop Line Follow Program
This is an update to a previous video I created a few weeks back. I have been pushing out a wide variety of line following programs. The video I shared previously…Read more
LEGO EV3 Tutorial 9: Data Wires
Are you ready to learn more about programming in the LEGO Ev3 software? Have you come to understand how to program motors and sensors, but want to move things to…Read more
First Lego League: Where Do I Start?
Are you new to First Lego League? Are you looking to make sense of all that you have to do as a coach to have a team prepared to run…Read more
Make Writing with LEGO Instead of Writing Old School
If you really stop to think about writing and the process it sure looks an awful like the process we use in Makerspaces. You have an idea, you draft, you…Read more