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Autonomous Lego Robotics - Class held at Case Western Reserve University using Lego beams, plates, gears, practical programming, mechanics, and software. Information provided about course.
Beyond Black Boxes - Article concerns enriching children by giving them scientific opportunities. One method used is with the programmable Cricket computer component.
CommonWealth: MBA Adventures in LEGOland - Article about the manufacturing and distribution of Lego bricks. Carl Fortin '64, Vice President of Finance of LEGO Systems in North America takes 15 young students on a tour of the Lego facility in Enfield, Connecticut.
Crickets: Tiny Computers for Big Ideas - Can be used for robotic applications, body-monitoring, and data collecting. Provides technical information, details, and educational links.
ESG Lego Robotics Seminar - A basic robotics and mechanics class at MIT that teaches how to build a functioning robot using Lego bricks.
Gerald Ford School Lego Lab - Fifth-graders build and study machines using Dacta Robolab sets. News, photographs, and session information available.
ICOBotics Software - Teaches basic computer programming and robotics to junior high and high school students.
J and J's Robotics in the Classroom - Kids and teachers learn how to build and program robots. Links to Robodome, a classroom designed specifically to teach robotics.
LDAPS: Lego Engineer - The graphical programming environment for the Lego Dacta serial interface box. Provides FAQ, free downloads, teachers guide, installment requirements, and curriculum ideas.
MIT Programmable Brick Project - The research project from which Mindstorms grew. Lots of information here, in geek-digestible form.
MIT's Lego Robot Design Competition Project - Students are given a kit with Lego parts, sensors, motors, wire, batteries, and electronics. They have one month to design and build a computer-controlled robot.
Minnesota First Lego League - An academic competition that allows kids to demonstrate their creativity, teamwork, and understanding of technology competing with Lego robots they designed, built and programmed themselves.
Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Laboratory - College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Features the work of seven design and engineering groups using the Lego system.
Pitsco Lego Dacta - Specializes in educational activities including Robolab, eLAB, the Aquaport Launcher, and the revolutionary Spectrum System K-6 curriculum. Features how to apply for a grant, coming events, newsletter, and standards.
Robolab - Innovative educational robotics program offered by National Instruments, Lego Dacta, and Tufts University.
Robolab: Lego Mindstorm for Schools - Product overview, ordering information, resources, news, and project description and photographs.
Robotic Design Studio - Students learn how to design, assemble, and program robots made out of Lego parts, sensors, motors, and a palm-sized computer. Includes an on-line museum of robot projects.
Robots of Brown University's AI Lab - Pictures of the Legobots from Brown's course on 'Building Intelligent Robots'.
The Epistemology and Learning Group - MIT Media Lab explores how new technologies can enable new ways of thinking, learning, and designing. Discussion centered on the Future of Learning and Lifelong Kindergarten program.
University of Aarhus: Lego Lab - Lab used for teaching and researching simple robot technology, including the use of Lego MindStorms RCX microcontroller.
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