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Brickworkz LEGO mosaics : Blog : Brickworkz comes to the Junior First Lego League Brickworkz comes to the Junior First Lego LeagueI spent my Friday afternoon in Colonial Heights, Virginia as a guest speaker to an attentive audience of a dozen 6-10 year olds. This being my first public presentation in quite some time, I think they took it easy on me. The Tri-Cities Home Educators (TCHE) is a coalition of parents who raise and teach their children in the Greater Richmond* region of Virginia. Their kids meet each week to socialize and play, and have one very fine hobby in common: LEGO. The Junior First Lego League (JFLL) introduces children to the concepts of teamwork and basic design skills, creating an initial interest and hands-on approach to science and technology through the familiarity and fun of LEGO building. The goal: provide an experience that will begin to transform youngsters and open their eyes to the possibilities of improving the world around them through acknowledgment, thought, planning and technology. This week, I was invited to speak at their final meeting of the year and show the children some of the things I had done with Brickworkz LEGO mosaics.
The kids had some great questions about how I got started doing this, and what LEGO sets I liked to play with when I was younger. Many of them had visited my site and watched the videos of mosaics being created. They all wanted to see the Spongebob mosaic, but I no longer own that one. In fact, I don't own many of the mosaics anymore. (They've all been sold!) Earlier in the week, I finished two small mosaics of Jim Henson and Walt Disney. Before I even knew about the TCHE meeting, I decided to work on these two mosaics as part of a "role model" series. The kids were the first to see these new mosaics. I used the two mosaics to discuss the differences in building posterized LEGO mosaics and dithered-style LEGO mosaics. After the Q&A session, which was very entertaining, the kids spilled out LEGO sets and began playing and trying to build their own mosaics. I had a lot of fun talking with their parents and watching the kids creatively building. It was a fun time, and I was honored to inspire creativity with the kids. This is exactly what I wanted to do with Brickworkz. Community outreach was a focus for 2007 and I was happy to give my time to show the children that you may get more serious as you get older, but you don't have to give up your creativity.
Play well,  Posted by Brian Korte on March 10, 2007 What do you think? Let us know! « Previous: Planning the Year | Home | Next: Brickfest PDX - a Virtual Experience » TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Commentssounds like a fun experience with the kids Posted by: Dan on April 5, 2007 8:10 PM |
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