Building an education, one Lego at a time (WUTR/WFXV Utica)
The Girl Scouts Foothills Council’s LegoBot Team, Girls on the Lego, were out in full force at the seventh annual Mohawk Valley Technical Education and Pre-Engineering Showcase at SUNYIT Thursday afternoon.
New Modular Platform Makes Planning Complex Laboratory Systems Easy As Lego (Science Daily)
Things that work on a small scale are not necessarily as successful on a large one. It takes a lot of patience and money to scale up analytical or therapeutic processes from the laboratory to industrial manufacture. The new “Modular Process Automation Laboratory m:Pal” platform makes it possible to plan for complex laboratory equipment faster and more efficiently. …
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Preview [PC] (GameSpot)
We ran from giant blocky boulders in our latest look at this swinging action game.
Lego Batman game announced (Stuff)
After the run-away success of the Lego: Star Wars video games, the same developers are currently working on a similar title for their building-brick range of Batman-themed sets.
Legos a building block in autism therapy (Philly.com)
The Lego raft carrying the Lego castaways approached the Lego island, “chased by raptors.” Lewis Roberts, a 12-year-old from Medford, moved the raft an inch, then another young filmmaker snapped a digital camera. A third boy consulted their script.
BEAUCARE TO HOST LEGO BUILDING COMPETITION (Beauregard Daily News)
Beauregard Parish families are invited to take advantage of an upcoming opportunity to help their children become more interactive and develop their creativity and building skills.
Violence and Visual Unification in LEGO Universe [Lego Universe] (Addict 3D)
The official LEGO Universe website just put up an interview with Phillip Atencio, one of the upcoming massively multiplayer game’s art directors. There’s a lot of material in the interview but there were two things he touched upon that I found really interesting.
Sega Appoints EA, Disney, Lego Vet As Marketing VP (Gamasutra)
Sega of America has announced that it has named Sean Ratcliffe vice president of marketing. Ratcliffe is a 15 year veteran of the industry, including stints at Disney Interactive Studios, Lego Interactive and EA Europe, including time as worldwide franchise director for Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone. Ratcliffe is to serve as a “key member of Sega of America’s senior management team” and …
St. Cloud Storm Cats will compete in FIRST LEGO League robotics tournament (Orlando Sentinel)
Six students ages 10 to 13 will go to an Atlanta tournament after winning the Florida title. First, they stormed through St. Petersburg. Then, they picked up a title in Titusville. Now, six Osceola County home-schooled students, none older than 13, are heading to Atlanta to compete in a technological championship that will pit them against other youngsters from around the world. …