LEGO Junior Robotics Competition This Weekend

Neuropol writes "CNN tells us our favorite locking building block company, LEGO, is hosting a Junior Robotics Competition in Atlanta, GA this weekend. The event expects to pit hundreds of grade schoolers ages 9-14 against each other in a 9 task Olympic Style face-off with each teams robot. Twelve year old Taylor offers 'NASA works with a lot of robots and when you build a robot you need to know what goes in it,' says Taylor. 'And when you're working with FIRST LEGO you have to figure that out -- how to set stuff where it needs to go.' While this is too young for most of us to participate in, it's great to see the attention being focused on such a potentially great generation of robotics developers."

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[Rosco P. Coltrane]

It was the Lego Technics for me, with the (no defunct I think) pneumatic pistons.

As a side note, I really REALLY hate those XYZ-branded Lego sets: the whole point of Lego bricks is that you invent your own stuff. With thos dedicated sets (Star Wars, Jurassic Park and whatnot), the child's imagination is locked in. I reckon that's a major reason why Lego have become much less popular these days. They really should stick to building generic bricks and parts.