LEGO Week  at The Division of Continuing Education at Marshall University June 7-11, 1999    

The Marshall University  Division of Continuing Education  offered a LEGO Week from June 7-11, 1999.  Linda Hamilton organized  many different LEGO Dacta Projects for  exploration.  The LEGO Week class had two sessions running  from 9:00am  until 1:00am.  Students in the two sessions chose among many different groupings of projects to plan, design, build, program, and record their LEGO Projects.  Some of the choices include LEGO Control Lab, LEGO CAD, Intelligent House, Pneumatics, Technic Sets, and RoboLab Creations.  The students learned to use various LEGO elements such as levers, gears, motors, pulleys, pneumatics,  touch, motion,  and light sensors, and also program robots and models.

  June 8, 1999 Session:

Lever balancing aLEGO weighted block	LEGO CAD,LEGO Control Lab, &  RoboLab
Another view of the lever	Simple machines, such as this wheel barrow, can roll
Gears, connectors, levers, and bricks create a working model of a windshield wiper	Tall structures like this tower require carefully planned support
Another simple machine, a gear rack	LEGO Control Lab program   runs this robotic arm
Model of tower that could be a communication tower	RCX car with passengers executing a RoboLab program
Constructing a scale with gram cubes	RCX robot controlled by touch sensors
RoboLab program is downloaded  to the "Bug" through the IR	The legs appear very life-like
Working together makes work-time   a science learning experience	This RCX insect is ready to fly away!
Manufacturing machines are used in many businesses.  This ice cream machine is programmed using   LEGO Control Lab from LEGO Dacta	Gear rack

 

MU LEGO Week June 1999   Monday     Tuesday      Wednesday     Thursday     Friday  LEGO Links of Linda Hamilton

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Created 6/8/99 Updated 6/12/99 S. Simon L. Hamilton