Follow the Light
FGC 2004
LEGO in the Light
Linda Hamilton brought LEGO materials for the week long conference in UMass
July third through tenth.
Parents and children of all ages built and programmed Cities and Transportation,
Engineering, Simple motorized Machines, and Duplo sets.
Many of the activities were informal in study rooms and at meal times. Four sessions were in workshops.
Of those two were in Family Place, one was at the junior high space, and one was at Passion Attraction.
The smallest group was parent and child, and the largest was 22 kids and 8 adults for a total of 66 people.
Many kinds of projects were built:
Bridges,
music makers and pianos,
a dice thrower was shown,
tops and top spinners,
gates ,
conveyor for assembly line timing estimation,
chair,
gears for whirling dervish,
houses,
cranes,
and
cars designed with car base instructions.
Robotics vehicle was programmed to follow the light.
There were many solar powered vehicles, flowers, and walkers,
Kid power and solar was saved up in capacitor for later use,
Pneumatics were used to operate a merry go round up and down and walking
robotics.
The 
LEGO
City
and Mars South Pole
were operated over the Internet.
Use SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu
for sending programs for remote sensing
RoboLab Pilot and Inventor programs were made and run.
A turnstile was programmed to count people.
Red Rover Red Rover was used to operate the projects with RCX.
Some of the pictures were taken through the camera that is on the rover
operated by Red Rover.
Simple and complex
Capacitor
Internet
Red Rover Red Rover
RoboLab Programming
Bridges
Cars
Lunch room
to study room
Passion Attraction
Outside
Inside
Pictures
of the LEGO projects
Pictures
of the LEGO builders