Learning the Basics of Lego Robotics
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This spring, the boys were able to take a beginner Lego Robotics class through School Aged Services on the Ft. Richardson side of JBER. They had been wanting to try it out for a while and I was happy they could learn from someone with some experience. Far better to do it this way than to scrape together the funds to buy a kit and find they didn’t enjoy it.
The first week they went, most of the time was spent putting together a basic format and learning how to do some simple ‘programming’ that would tell the robot what to do. Amazingly, the boys not only had no complaints…they could hardly wait for the next week to arrive!
Subsequent weeks (5 in total) had the boys exploring the programming aspect more, including taking the robots into the gym down the hall to have more room to ‘roam.’ While the robots had space to roam, they also had a very interested toddler chasing after them.
After a while, they decided to restructure their robots to look and act differently…all from suggested configurations.
They had some K’Nex and Lego products that J could use while in the room. I’m in awe of the flexible K’Nex pieces and am going to be looking for some as J gets a little older. There were even project cards on hand to show you how to build some neat items, like the Ferris wheel.
The only ‘complaint’ they had was that the class was so free in form they would have enjoyed more challenges given TO them. But, they are still quite interested in getting a robotics kit in our house to use. (I just hope they can share it as they were able to each have their own robot in the class and I’m not buying multiple kits!)
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That looks like so much fun. I'm looking forward to my boys being old enough to do that. I got my husband a set of Lego robotics back when my boys were infants and he refuses to open it until the boys are old enough to do it with him.
That sounds like a really neat class! I'm so glad they enjoyed it!
Very neat! We were able to play with programming one of those, at the Oregon State Fair one year. I'd love to find a class like that for my boys!
How neat! I'd love to get the boys a kit but they can be very expensive! Looks like they're worth it though, huh? Stopping by from Science Sunday!Jessy