ROBOTICS CAMP
CREATING - BUILDING - CODING
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LEGO STEM Activities for a Preschooler
Posted Mar. 1, 2020 by Dave
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Surviving extended periods of time at home and keeping your sanity is tough with young active and inquisitive children. When daycare, grandparents and activity clubs are all gone, what do you do? Raining outside too? Kids need something to entertain them. If they get bored, that’s usually when irritable or attention seeking behavior can set in.
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FOX's New LEGO Masters Series Just Added Some Famous Guests
Posted January 9, 2020 by Shahrzad Warkentin
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As if brick fans weren’t already excited about the premiere of LEGO MASTERS on Fox, now the show has announced some famous celebrity appearances you won’t want to miss. The new competition series hosted by Will Arnett will have contestants competing for the ultimate title of LEGO Master Builder by facing themed building challenges.
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LEGO 2020 Star Wars, Creator, City and Technic Sets
Posted Nov. 19, 2019 by Blair Atland
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LEGO is back with a collection of new kits due out next year. Ranging from some detailed Star Wars creations to a massive Technic crane and more, it’s looking like 2020 will have a plethora of sets to assemble. Take a look at all of the new 2020 Star Wars, Creator, City, and Technic LEGO sets.
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Headlining today’s batch of newly announced kits are seven creations from the Star Wars universe. While we already knew that there were some Tatooine-themed creations on the horizon, these bring us spanning the Prequel, Original, and Sequel Trilogies.
LEGO BOOST Star Wars Droid Commander Set
Posted May 4, 2019 by Dave Schefcik
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LEGO has revealed Star Wars Droid Commander, a 1,100-piece set that lets you build and program three droids from the Star Wars universe including the iconic R2-D2, a Gonk droid and a Mouse droid. The set uses the LEGO Boost platform in combination with a new free app to help learn programming to achieve success in more than 40 pre-loaded missions.
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LEGO's Spike Prime Kits Give Kids The Confidence To Code
Posted April 2, 2019 by Kris Naudus
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STEM has a bit of an image problem: Despite efforts to make it colorful and friendly, it's still intimidating to a lot of students. When there are parents shoving electronics kits at them while offering no help and teachers insisting that learning to code is fundamental to their career prospects, some kids end up completely turned off. But now LEGO Education has a $330 kit, Spike Prime, aimed at building coding literacy and overcoming the confidence problem that drives many kids away from STEM before they reach high school.
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LEGO Powered Up Questions and Answers
Posted August 20, 2018 by Admin
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With the launch of the new LEGO Power Functions 2.0 (now referred to as LEGO Powered Up) system in the #60197 LEGO City Passenger Train, #60198 LEGO City Cargo Train, and #76112 LEGO Super Heroes App-Controlled Batmobile, a lot of questions and concerns surfaced from the LEGO fan community. Ambassadors of the various recognized LEGO fan groups were asked to gather and submit questions from their members, so the LEGO Powered Up team can answer them. Below, I have included a summary of some of the topics that was discussed, and you can read the full discussion in this LEGO Ambassador Network blog post and comment section.
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LEGO App-Controlled Batmobile 76112
Posted August 1, 2018 by Edwinder
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The LEGO Batman App-Controlled Batmobile (76112) made its debut earlier in the year and has been quite anticipated since then. LEGO sets are pretty static in general within the System theme, with exceptions like vehicles running on tracks and rails such as trains and the recent roller coaster, so it’s pretty nice to have a free-form controlled device in the mainstream market that won’t take much time from build to play. The new Batmobile finally hits store shelves today, and we’re taking it for a spin so we can pretend to be the Dark Knight for a day.
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LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 – HOME OR EDUCATION SET
Posted March 14, 2018 by Aleksandra Ziemacka
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LEGO Mindstorms sets are counted among the most widespread tools for teaching robotics and programming. The third generation of this set (after RCX and NXT) is presently available on the market in two versions: Education, for general school use, and Home, for individual consumers. What are the differences between the two? Is the costly Education version better? Do programming apps differ as well? In this article, we try to answer all these questions and more.
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LEGO BOOST OR LEGO WEDO 2.0 – REVIEW AND COMPARISON
Posted December 14, 2017 by Aleksandra Ziemacka
LEGO Boost #17101 is the newest robotics set produced by LEGO. This product, unlike the LEGO WeDo series created for educational purposes, was designed for individual customers – children and their parents. RoboCAMP team decided to check how far the differences go.
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What is LEGO Ideas about?
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Love getting imaginative with LEGO bricks? Fancy yourself as a LEGO master builder? Well, this is the place to be. Share your cool creations and creativity, enter prize competitions, showcase your proposals for new LEGO Ideas sets and vote for awesome models dreamt up by your fellow fan designers.
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Upcoming Events 2020
SUN FEB 16, 12:00 - 4:00 PM
MONTREAL CAMP FAIR
Holiday Inn Point Claire, Quebec
FRI APR 17, 8:00 - 3:00 PM
ROBO JUNIOR COMPETITION
Rosemont High School - Montreal
SAT NOV 7 - SUN NOV 8
BRICKO-MANIE
Pavillon La Coop, St. Hyacinthe
And what better way to celebrate the return of Emmet and co. in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part than by tipping out a big bucket of bricks, firing up your imagination and piecing together a plastic fantastic tribute to the Minifigures of Bricksburg?
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Which is exactly why we’ve rounded up the latest cracking kits from LEGO for 2019 – so you won’t be short of inspiration for your next blocky creation. The songs are on you, though.
In conjunction with our in-person coverage of the LEGO Fall 2018 Preview event, we’re bringing you all the new product reveals in the LEGO Technic line, scheduled for release later this year. There are several fun sets coming up in this series, and we even got an up-close look at the new Volvo Concept Loader today.