Congratulations to the following educators for being selected as contestants in the first-ever Boston LEGO Education Landmark School Competition! The competition is one of the activities featured during the Boston LEGO KidsFest planned for September 25 & 26.
To qualify, each educator had to submit an essay about their landmark build, explaining why they selected the landmark for the competition and its importance to their students and community. Now these educators, along with their students, must create using LEGO bricks their submitted landmarks and display them at the Boston LEGO Kids Fest event. Judging will be by popular vote and prizes will be presented for first, second, and third place!
The selected contestants and the builds they will be creating with their students are as follows:
Carolyn Mills, Chelsea Public Schools: The Chelsea City Hall Dotty Corbiere, Meadowbrook School: The North Bridge Rita DiStefano-French, Lancaster 4H: The National Landmark Danielle Collins, Academy Avenue Primary School: The Great Pond Dotty Corbiere, Meadowbrook School: The LEGO Trail (consisting of The Boston Common Sign, The Old Granary Burial Ground, The Bunker Hill Monument, The USS Constitution, Faneuil Hall, Fenway Park, The CITGO Sign, and the Duck Boats) Teresa Bien-Aime, Pine Hill School: Sherborn's meetinghouse
If you will be attending this year's KidsFest event, be sure to stop by and vote for your favorite! To learn more about LEGO KidsFest or to order event tickets, visit www.LEGOkidsfest.com!
Is America losing its creative edge? According to recent studies creative I.Q. in the United States is declining. Learn how researchers came to this conclusion and what can be done to fix it.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html
Registration for the 2010 LEGO Smart Creativity Contest will end on July 31, 2010! If you are a K-12 teacher or home educator residing in the U.S., you are eligible to compete! Visit www.LEGOeducation.us/CreativityContest for more information and to register! Hurry, time is running out!
NASA is working diligently with local school districts in West Virginia to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. Through hands-on workshops and trainings educators are empowered to lead students through STEM activities.
Read more here: http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=83267
Thanks to the support of educators from across the nation, the LEGO Smart Creativity Contest is extending its limit past 10,000 new contestants...indefinitely!
Now through July 2010, all K-12 teachers and home educators working in the U.S. are invited to register for the 2010 LEGO Smart Creativity Contest!
Official rules and contest challenge information will be sent to all preregistered contestants on August 2, 2010! Contest preregistration ends July 31, 2010.
To learn more or to register, visit www.LEGOeducation.us/CreativityContest.
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