I recently attended a Lego Robotics workshop at the university down the street.  The workshop was geared towards newcomers to Lego Mindstorms.  The workshop offered information and tips on forming and preparing a team to participate in the local Mindstorms Challenge held the the university in the spring of 2012.
Some of the things we worked on were -

• learning the basics of Mindstorms 2.0
• how the NXT works
• basic building and programming
• problem solving

My 5 minute bot.

Programming the 5 minute bot with NXT software,

The kids in my class are very excited this week.  I announced last week that we would be doing Lego Robotics in my class.  Yesterday the kids worked on getting the kits out to make sure that we had the proper items in the kits.  I was really nice to see all of the kids working together to take apart last year's projects and getting excited about starting up this year.  I am planning on going to a workshop this weekend that talks about robotics in the classroom. The workshop is going to be fun.

Updates coming soon

Have a great day.

L