It's Mayan Adventure week 2!  We've been waiting for Jim Kelly's LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King's Treasure, since we did our first Mayan Robotics Camp in 2007.

Continue reading "Mayan Adventure 2 - Day One"

Summer Activities
Now that your children are out of school, are you looking for some new ideas?  The summer kids activities page has ideas for summer projects. 

Continue reading "July 2009 Newsletter"

For the final day, we made a few changes.  The first time, all the robots had trouble pushing the statue up the ramp.  The changes for this year were partly to see if anyone could actually complete the whole challenge for the final day.

Continue reading "Robot Week Day 5"

We simplified the Library challenge this year.  The robot had to use a string to go around the basket and return to the entrance.  Then the teams had to pull on the string to retrieve the basket with the key.

Continue reading "Robot Week Day 4"

Our morning started out with the teams finishing their robots to complete the crystal challenge.  In the afternoon, we started the library challenge.

Continue reading "Robot Week Day 3"