Just a note to all you FLL teams out there, this year’s Power Puzzle logo is available for download on the FIRST LEGO League site.
We would like to encourage teams to get creative with the logo and use it on t-shirts or other materials as you see fit.
Want to check it out? Click here to be redirected to the FLL United States homepage.
With the addition of the Science and Technology Power Add-On Set, LEGO® Education is continuing to prepare students for robotics.
This set, which focuses on powered forces and motion, allows students to become familiar with TECHNIC building elements while learning both engineering and design principles. In addition, students use the motor, battery box, and connecting leads included in the set, to bring their models to life; making moving mechanisms and developing a greater understanding of motorized machines.
When combined with the Science and Technology Base Set, the Power Add-On aids in creating a knowledge base that is key in bringing students one step closer to robotics
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Originally available from the 8272 TECHNIC Snowmobile Set, comes the new Track and Sprockets Set. This new spare parts set contains 100 track elements and 10 sprockets; further enabling the creation of wicked awesome NXT robots (see below).
Product Name: Track and Sprockets PackItem Number: 991369Price: $12.00Contents: 100 track elements, 10 sprockets
The set is available now at www.legoeducation.com
In Jim Kelly’s latest module, Mystery Warehouse Part 1, Mulligan and his friend Veronica are searching for his uncle who has mysteriously disappeared. Their only clue to his whereabouts is a note that leads them to a dark and eerie warehouse. Once inside the friends’ robot building and programming skills are tested as they must race to complete some strange challenges and find Mulligan’s missing uncle.
Throughout this module, students will participate in two pre-challenge activities and one main challenge as they build and program a robot using the new HiTechnic Compass Sensor. CAD building instructions and complete programming instructions are provided along with Web links for downloading all programs used in the module.
Story and worksheets can be reproduced for helping students track their challenge progress and additional homework/extra credit activities are included throughout.
Part 2 and 3 of the module will be available soon and will utilize the HiTechnic Color and Acceleration Sensors.
Item Number: 991388Price: $39.00
Interested? Please check out www.legoeducation.com for any additional product information.
Introducing the Gyro and the IRSeeker, the latest additions to the HiTechnic sensor line adapted for the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT! Through their partnership with LEGO, HiTechnic has once again delivered two great additions to the NXT accessory group.
The HiTechnic Gyro Sensor allows students to accurately detect and measure rotation for their NXT projects. The Gyro contains a single-axis gyroscopic sensor that can measure +/- 360 per second; allowing users to build robots that can balance, swing, or perform other functions where measurement of rotation is essential.
The HiTechnic IRSeeker Sensor is exceptionally useful for robot games such as the RoboCup Junior competitions. This sensor has an array of infrared detectors that gives a 135-degree view and returns the direction and relative signal strength, indicating the location of IR source. This allows an NXT bot to find the infrared source, such as the soccer ball, and keep it in sight.
In addition to the new Gyro and IRSeeker, HiTechnic has released three other NXT sensors: the Color Sensor, the Compass Sensor, and the Acceleration Sensor. All of the sensors mentioned have a wide variety of educational applications and new accessories will continue to be introduced throughout 2007 and 2008.
You can learn more about these sensors and future sensors from HiTechnic at www.legoeducation.com or www.hitechnic.com