A North Carolina Homeschooling Family won the 2011 LEGO Smart Creativity Contest in the homeschooling category by showcasing how they use LEGO to make stop-motion animation videos. The family plans to give some of the $2,500 LEGO gift certificates to their local 4-H Lego and Robotics Club. Read more Check out all of the winning [...]
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Kid Creates Lego Stop-Motion Animation Videos for Good
Posted by ginac on October 29th, 2011
Bricks4Good is seeking kids with magnificently positive attitudes, rosy outlooks, and immeasurable quantities of good will to put their video creation skills to the test. Bricks4Good has released its first in a series of videos about social change. The first Bricks4Good video, Tolerance, stars Carl and Pixel. Carl and Pixel are Lego Minifigures that star in [...]
Posted in LEGOs, News, social change 
Tags: Bricks4Good, hate, LEGO, Lego Minifigures, social change, Social Justice, tolerance 
Comments OffLegoland Florida Opening Day Highlights
Posted by ginac on October 18th, 2011
Legoland Florida opened to the public on Saturday, October 15, 2011. We were there! Check out our fun Lego fan pics, learn about the most popular rides, find out where to eat if you have food allergies, and even where to stay for the night. Legoland Florida: A Young Lego Geek’s Paradise
Posted in Just for Fun, LEGOs, News Tags: Clutch Powers, Legoland Florida, LEGOs, Nickelodeon Suites Comments OffLegoland Florida Sneak Preview
Posted by ginac on September 3rd, 2011
Legoland Florida opens to the public on October 15, 2011. Learn about some cool insider information straight from Legoland Florida Master Builder, Jason Miller. Read my GeekMom article: Legoland Florida: A Geeky Preview
Posted in Events, Learning Methods, LEGOs, News, STEAM Tags: Darth Vader, LEGO, Legoland Florida, Star Wars Comments OffCool Ways to Learn with Legos Beyond S.T.E.M.
Posted by ginac on August 29th, 2011
Most Lego fans are familiar with the connection between building with Legos and engineering, programming, and science. Lego Education products have awesome kits full of pulleys, gears, and even programmable robots that respond to light, motion, and more. But what about learning with Legos for kids who love to create stories, read, or create art? [...]
Posted in Activities, Learning Methods, LEGOs, Make, Online Tools, Reading, Science, STEAM, technology, Writing Tags: constructivism, Lego Minifigures, LEGOs, Mindstorms, S.T.E.A.M., S.T.E.M., Seymour Papert Comments OffLEGO Smart Creativity Contest
Posted by ginac on August 20th, 2011
Calling all educations. Enter LEGO’s Smart Creativity Contest to win great prizes. To enter, simply create a short video that showcases how you use LEGO® Education materials within your homeschool or traditional school curriculum to engage learners! Visit the LEGO Smart Creativity Contest website for more information. Hurry! Registration closes October 14, 2011.
Posted in Contests, LEGOs Tags: innovation, LEGO, LEGO animation, LEGO Creativity Contest Comments OffMake Lego Models Not War
Posted by ginac on August 14th, 2011
Apparently, Volkswagen camper vans are one of the most iconic vehicles globally. That’s why Lego decided to produce the 1962 Volkswagen camper van model, on sale October 1, 2011, on the Lego website. The model is expensive ($99.00 in the U.S.), but it has over 1,000 pieces and has stunning details like the ‘splittie’ windshield [...]
Lego Creator – Creative Building Ideas Using Existing Bricks
Posted by ginac on August 13th, 2011
Many Lego fans buy Lego kits and build the kits using the step-by-step instructions provided inside the box. What is the average life span of a built model in your house? Well, not very long at our place. A week is probably the very longest a kit stays built. So, if your Lego builder has [...]
Posted in Activities, LEGOs, Online Tools Tags: bricks, build, constructivism, How-to, Lego Creator, LEGOs Comments OffSneak Peek at Bricks4Good
Posted by ginac on August 12th, 2011
Meet the characters for our upcoming video series, Bricks4Good, in this short introductory video. Bricks4Good is a social change video series produced by a nine year-old boy to inspire other kids. Each month, we’ll address a different social issue. Our first video will address tolerance and intolerance. If you want to stay in the loop [...]
Creating 50 Different Lego Models Using the Same 50 Pieces
Posted by ginac on July 31st, 2011
Tyler Neylon, A programmer and mathematician, created fifty different Lego models using the same fifty pieces from a Lego creator set. Check out his imaginative creations on his Google+ page. So, anyone else challenge themselves to anything like this? We’d love to hear your stories and see your photos! Check out the photos of all [...]
