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LEGO Yuh Mind!
Published: Wednesday | January 25, 20128 Comments
Students putting together their robots at the LEGO Yuh Mind workshop in Jacks Hill, St Andrew. The youngsters use the multi-coloured blocks to learn the complex study of robotics, creating their own designs and bringing them to life with the NXT LEGO brick. - Photos by Martin Baxter
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Martin Baxter, Gleaner Writer
In the basement of a Jacks Hill address is a workshop envied by children the world over - more than 35,000 LEGO pieces in all shapes and sizes, meticulously categorised in order of colour and function.
Every few minutes, a youngster from Campion College comes and retrieves a single LEGO piece and takes it back to his work desk. This young man, 11-year-old Dylan Chin, is building a robotic car and using LEGO as its structure.
"This is what an axle is," he explained, giving The Gleaner a lesson in this seemingly sophisticated form of child's play.
"It allows you to put pieces such as gears, wheels and axle connectors on to them, and connector pins are used to join the beams, which are the main hardware of the robot that keep it together. So these pieces are essential for a robot because, without them, the robot would not stay together, or it would not be able to run as smoothly on the board."
In this basement, which is fitted with blackboards, a comprehensive inventory area and a work table, LEGO is no longer just a toy; it is the building block of life.
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LEGO Yuh Mind!
Published: Wednesday | January 25, 20128 Comments
Students putting together their robots at the LEGO Yuh Mind workshop in Jacks Hill, St Andrew. The youngsters use the multi-coloured blocks to learn the complex study of robotics, creating their own designs and bringing them to life with the NXT LEGO brick. - Photos by Martin Baxter
1 2 3 >
Martin Baxter, Gleaner Writer
In the basement of a Jacks Hill address is a workshop envied by children the world over - more than 35,000 LEGO pieces in all shapes and sizes, meticulously categorised in order of colour and function.
Every few minutes, a youngster from Campion College comes and retrieves a single LEGO piece and takes it back to his work desk. This young man, 11-year-old Dylan Chin, is building a robotic car and using LEGO as its structure.
"This is what an axle is," he explained, giving The Gleaner a lesson in this seemingly sophisticated form of child's play.
"It allows you to put pieces such as gears, wheels and axle connectors on to them, and connector pins are used to join the beams, which are the main hardware of the robot that keep it together. So these pieces are essential for a robot because, without them, the robot would not stay together, or it would not be able to run as smoothly on the board."
In this basement, which is fitted with blackboards, a comprehensive inventory area and a work table, LEGO is no longer just a toy; it is the building block of life.
Full Hundred
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead3.html
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