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LEGO Smart Creativity Contest Entry By Kirsten Konopaski, Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School
Work in teams of two. Take the LEGO Smart Kit and create something…anything! You should use at least 10 of the pieces. Try to build something that is meaningful. Give it a name. Using Carnegie & Mellon University’s Alice software environment to create your object using other objects that Alice provides. Your model should represent each individual LEGO element that makes up your creation. Your object should be scaled to size for each individual LEGO element that makes up your creation. Your object should represent the color of each individual LEGO element that makes up your creation. Create a method to rotate your object vertically and horizontally in 3D space. Create a method that changes the color of your entire object to one solid color.
Lesson Learned: Teamwork, 3D Modeling with Animation, Object Oriented Software Design