CONGRATULATIONS to each of our 2010 LEGO® Smart Creativity Contest winners and the 20,000 contestants who registered for this year's challenge!
This year’s LEGO Smart Creativity Contest drew contestants from across the nation, representing all grade levels, and from all subject areas. The challenge? To create a classroom lesson about renewable energy that used LEGO elements to construct an object students would be studying.
We saw entries focusing on everything from solar power to generating energy from farm waste. The number of creative classroom lessons filtering into our contest inbox was simply amazing. So, again, congratulations to all our participants and especially this year's contest winners!
Lower Elementary CategoryGrand Prize Winner: Solar Powered School by Renee Griffin, Pine Grove Elementary
First Place Winners: Reduce and Reuse to Help the Environment by Nancy Rivera, Rivera HomeschoolRenewable Energy: Wind and Water by Tammie Koelle, Homeschool Educator
Upper Elementary CategoryGrand Prize Winner:Sunshine City by Karen Loutzenhiser, Homeschool Educator
First Place Winners:LEGO Energy Blox by Janice Trees, Trees Family HomeschoolLEGO Star Windmill by Melissa Zammit, Sonshine Christian School
Middle School CategoryGrand Prize Winner:Riding the Waves by Melanie Cameron, The Cameron School
First Place Winners:Building Renewable Energy Structures by Michael Champion, Portage Central Middle SchoolHeating and Cooling Earth by Rebecca McNutty, Homeschool Educator
High School CategoryGrand Prize Winner:Renew Our School by Tabitha Shelton, Lochart HS MLC Freshman Campus
First Place Winners:Solar Panels by Christine Ellis, Holy Family AcademyTidal Energy by Robert Massey, Peniel Baptist Academy
In the coming months LEGO Education will add the winning activities to our web site, allowing educators from around the globe access to your classroom lesson plan.
Will LEGO Education publish the complete list of participated contestants and their Ideas, like the previous Year? Will be good and informative for the rest of the contestants.
In the past we have published the contest entries, acknowleding the contestant who submitted the activity. This year we will only be adding the winning activities to our site. Our plan is to post all winning activities and promote them online starting in the next 2-4 weeks.