A few years ago my kids had received a cool Lego Mindstorms NXT for Christmas from Grandpa. We had fun with it, and to my surprise it wasn't my older two that showed the most interest but my third child, Esther.
A following Thanksgiving we were at my Aunt's home and we visited about the cool Lego robots. She had organized a team in something called FLL for her daughter and they had built a robot to compete. I was very interested, but when I returned back to Logan Utah in Cache Valley and started searching for local events I was disappointed to find that everything was down in the Salt Lake area. Cache Valley, it seemed, had been taken over by this Erector Set inspired robot called VEX. So, I remained vexed as I looked occasionally over the years.
Today the Edith Bowen Laboratory School (EBLS) sent out an email to parents saying that the USU STEM Center, under the direction of Dr. David Feldon, has agreed to provide a kit for a LEGO Robotics Team at Edith Bowen. The First Lego League competition will be held on January 10th in the STE2M Center. My first two children are in high school and middle school, but Esther is still at Edith Bowen and had the opportunity to be on the team. Fantastic!
Oh, and Edith Bowen was going to have a a VEX team...
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