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LEGO Design Thinking Experience Workshop for Students

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

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