01/05/09 Teams join together to construct climate tools for the Bought Hills Junior FIRST LEGO League on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
LEGOs lay the foundation for learning in school Alone, it is nothing but a little block.
But with hundreds of others, it can be just about anything you want it to be -- including an Arctic landscape.
That is what a few of the 30 Boght Hills students who took part in the Junior For Inspiration of Recognition of Science and Technology, or FIRST, LEGO League built this fall when they completed the annual FIRST challenge.
According to Michelle Simkulet, coach and coordinator of the Boght Hills Junior FIRST LEGO League and an 18-year engineer at InterScience Troy, the national FIRST organization presents all junior leagues and standard leagues with a science and technology-related challenge. Participants in the league then are provided a set of LEGOs and told to build... More|View all