Win 4 Tickets to Louisville LEGO KidsFest

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The Louisville LEGO KidsFest event is next month, starting April 5, and Classroom Antics Tech Camps has four tickets (up to $80 value) to give for the Friday Session on April 5, 2012 from 4pm-8:30pm! The contest is at the bottom of this web page. What is LEGO KidsFest? The LEGO® KidsFest is a giant traveling LEGO® expo coming to Louiville’s Kentucky Exposition Center April 5-7, 2013. This hands-on, educational, all-ages LEGO® extravaganza features millions of LEGO® bricks, not to … [Read more...]

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What We Learned From FIRST LEGO League

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It is mid-November, and this past weekend, our Classroom Antics sponsored team, the MindBlasters, took home the Best Robot Design award. The picture of them holding their trophy shows how proud they were of their achievement! I was one of four dads that helped mentor our kids through this big complex competition called FIRST LEGO League (also called FLL for short). This competition can be overwhelming, even for adults. And since our kids were 8-9 years old, they were also the youngest, which … [Read more...]

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LEGOLAND Through the Eyes of a Non-LEGO Lover

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Written by our fabulous guest blogger, Alicia Wozniak. Follow her @littlewoz. Simply put, LEGOLAND Florida is way cool. It’s no Cedar Point or Disneyland, but there’s a lot to see and do with more than 50 rides, shows and attractions. The park hours are limited and they are closed some weekdays, but it was under a two hour drive from Tampa and my daughter, Weez, had the day off school. So, I took the day off work and we made a day of it. We stopped at Starbucks first, of course, for a … [Read more...]

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Android Remote Control for LEGO Mindstorms NXT

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At the Medina Robofest today, I stumbled upon Nate and Jack controlling their LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot with a Samsung Galaxy Tablet running Android. I thought this was the coolest thing, so I asked them how they configured this. To my surprise, they used the built-in Bluetooth module on the NXT brick and a FREE app called NXT Remote Control from the Android Market. How It Works Inside the white intelligent NXT brick is a Bluetooth wireless chip. This chip is standard, so you don't have to … [Read more...]

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Cincinnati LEGO KidsFest Ticket Giveaway

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The Cincinnati LEGO KidsFest event is next month, starting March 23, and Classroom Antics Tech Camps has four tickets (up to $80 value) to give for the Friday Session on March 23, 2012 from 4pm-8:30pm! Where and When for Free Tickets Duke Energy Convention Center 525 Elm Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 Friday Session, March 23, 2012 4 pm - 8:30 pm (the raffle is for this session) Other Purchasable Time Slots Saturday, March 24 Session I: 9 am – 1:30 pm Session II: 3 pm – 7:30 … [Read more...]

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LEGO Brick Background Wallpaper

We know you love the LEGO bricks. We all do! And what better way to show your free love with your childhood pastime than by geeking out your computer desktop with a LEGO brick background. The background wallpaper comes in many different colors. They originated from various pages of the LEGO KidsFest website. Download the Entire Collection Download the complete set of LEGO Brick Backgrounds. The individual colors are below if you want to download just one color. Use the "tile" option when … [Read more...]

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LEGO KidsFest Coming to Cincinnati in 2012

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LEGO KidsFest is a fun day out with the LEGO lover in your family. The event takes place at convention halls throughout the country. Each year, about 5-6 cities host this event. If you have the opportunity to attend one in your city, I recommend you go. It's a lot of fun. The event coming to Cincinnati will be at the Duke Energy Center. Kids will have the opportunity to build with LEGO at about a dozen stations throughout the event. The event will last for 4-hours, and then the next group of … [Read more...]

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Robofest Competition Coming to Medina Ohio

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** Registration for this event starts December 5, 2011. The event is March 3, 2012. Register at Robofest.net. (Special thanks to Deb Allen of the Medina County School's ESC Department for writing this guest article.) Robofest began in 2000, and is a robotics competition sponsored through Lawrence Technological University that targets students in grades 5-12. Students work on teams (2-3 students per team is recommended by Lawrence Tech) to build and program an autonomous robot. Students … [Read more...]

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Win Tickets to Cleveland LEGO KidsFest

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LEGO KidsFest-Cleveland is next weekend, starting November 4, and Classroom Antics has four tickets (up to $80 value) to give for the Friday Session on November 4th, 2012 from 4pm-8:30pm! LEGO KidsFest will have dozens of activities covering 150,000 square feet of the I-X Center. LEGO KidsFest brings all of the creative hands-on, minds-on fun of LEGO building and experiences together in one activity-packed family event for children of all ages and builders of all skills and interest. Read … [Read more...]

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How to Start a FIRST LEGO League Team

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What is FIRST LEGO League FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is an international competition organized by a non-profit group called FIRST for kids (ages 9-14 in the USA and Canada, ages 9-16 elsewhere). In September of each year, FIRST announces a robotics challenge to which a team of kids must find an answer. Each team must use LEGO bricks and robotics to demonstrate the answer. Students then compete against each other in regional competitions, compare ideas, and display their robots. As a LEGO Team … [Read more...]

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