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LEGO
Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in
learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids
may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
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Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
LEGO Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
Get started now... the things you need to know before you do or buy anything are in this book!
Click on book cover for information
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
LEGO
Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in
learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids
may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
Get started now... the things you need to know before you do or buy anything are in this book!
Click on book cover for information
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
LEGO
Robotics is easy enough for teachers and other adults to guide kids in
learning STEM skills with it without extensive training. In fact, kids
may become peer teachers after a little fun experience with it...
Get started now... the things you need to know before you do or buy anything are in this book!
Click on book cover for information
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who
works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating
platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too)
This books explains it all!
"Before Rosie and R2-D2 became pop culture icons, a humble toy named Robert paved the way.
In examining the history of famous robots, you'd be forgiven for overlooking a 1950s children's toy named Robert.
Robert the Robot, who was a product of the once-mighty Ideal Toy
Company, didn't do much, at least compared to the standards set by
science fiction at the time. Unlike the helpful humanoids of Isaac
Asimov's I, Robot, Robert was just a 14-inch-tall hunk of
plastic that could utter a few phrases, wheel around with a tethered
remote control, and grip objects in his mechanical arms.
Still, Robert deserves credit for being the first plastic toy robot
made in the United States, and the first toy robot to become an American
sensation. He was the subject of children's songs, enjoyed a Hollywood
film cameo, and was quickly imitated by rival toy makers. He also
preceded the industrial robotics boom by several years, capturing
people's imagination long before we truly understood what robots could
do.
Robert maintained a high profile through copious advertising
Robert was not the first toy robot of the post-WWII era. That honor, according to Collectors Weekly,
goes to Lilliput, a Japanese robot made of tin. After the war, tin
lithograph toys were a popular export from American-occupied Japan, and
Lilliput spawned plenty of successors.
But Robert was an American original, who according to Robotapedia was originally supposed to be a tie-in to the 1954 robot film Tobor the Great.
Although Robert never appeared in the film, he received plenty of
promotion on his own, debuting in the 1954 Sears Christmas catalog with
an asking price of just under $6, or about $54 in 2016 dollars.
Instead of tin, Ideal used plastic injection molding—a process that itself rose to prominence during the war.
Plastic was cheaper than tin or cast iron, and it allowed American
companies like Ideal to produce their own toys instead of importing and
reselling them.
"Robert was an answer to this massive amount of tin toys that were
coming from Japan," says Justin Pinchot, a Los Angeles-based collector
of vintage toy robots and ray guns. "It was really the beginning of the
plastic era."
That's not to say Robert was some cheap knockoff. Cranking the handle
on Robert's back caused him to speak ("I am Robert Robot, mechanical
man. Drive me and steer me, wherever you can"), while a battery inside
Robert's head allowed his eyes to light up. The cable-driven remote
control was novel as well, using a hand crank for movement and a trigger
for rotation.
Robert also had a unique aesthetic. As Pinchot points out, no one
else was doing large robots with "skirted" lower sections at the time,
and the look was quickly duplicated even in Japanese robots such as the "Gang of Five," who remain beloved by toy-robot collectors.
"A lot of these innovations were started here and picked up by Japan,
so I think Robert was one of those. I'm sure he inspired a lot of tin
stuff," Pinchot says.
How popular was Robert the Robot? While verifiable sales figures are illusive, a September 1955 story in the Portsmouth Times
of Portsmouth, Ohio, claimed that Robert was Ideal's biggest hit yet.
Demand was so strong that Ideal started licensing T-shirts, flashlights,
and other Robert-related merchandise, and when Shillito's Toyland
opened in downtown Cincinnati in 1955, a 9-foot-tall Robert greeted customers on the sidewalk, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Robert cameos with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in There's Always Tomorrow
Robert never became an enduring pop culture icon despite his
Hollywood origins, but he did enjoy some attention from the
entertainment industry. The children's music label Cricket Records produced a pair of songs about him, and he made a short appearance in the Douglas Sirk melodrama There's Always Tomorrow, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray..."
Robotics competition increases student interest in STEAM
By MELISSA PROULX
Sunday News Correspondent
WINDHAM - Roughly a dozen people gathered around the plexiglass stadium to watch the fight, with more sitting in the bleachers.
All
were eager to see who would be the reigning champion of the Vex
Robotics Competition Holiday Classic at Pembroke Academy on Saturday.
The
daylong event brought in primarily high school students from all across
New England to compete for the chance to advance to next the round
before going to the state competition in February. Some who have already
qualified still came out to compete.
Educators say competitions
like this are vital in efforts to increase student interest in science,
technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) fields.
- See
more at:
http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20161204/NEWS19/161209771&source=RSS#sthash.ZUhYioXY.dpuf
Robotics competition increases student interest in STEAM
By MELISSA PROULX
Sunday News Correspondent
WINDHAM - Roughly a dozen people gathered around the plexiglass stadium to watch the fight, with more sitting in the bleachers.
All
were eager to see who would be the reigning champion of the Vex
Robotics Competition Holiday Classic at Pembroke Academy on Saturday.
The
daylong event brought in primarily high school students from all across
New England to compete for the chance to advance to next the round
before going to the state competition in February. Some who have already
qualified still came out to compete.
Educators say competitions
like this are vital in efforts to increase student interest in science,
technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) fields.
- See
more at:
http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20161204/NEWS19/161209771&source=RSS#sthash.ZUhYioXY.dpuf
Robotics competition increases student interest in STEAM
By MELISSA PROULX
Sunday News Correspondent
WINDHAM - Roughly a dozen people gathered around the plexiglass stadium to watch the fight, with more sitting in the bleachers.
All
were eager to see who would be the reigning champion of the Vex
Robotics Competition Holiday Classic at Pembroke Academy on Saturday.
The
daylong event brought in primarily high school students from all across
New England to compete for the chance to advance to next the round
before going to the state competition in February. Some who have already
qualified still came out to compete.
Educators say competitions
like this are vital in efforts to increase student interest in science,
technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) fields.
- See
more at:
http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20161204/NEWS19/161209771&source=RSS#sthash.ZUhYioXY.dpuf
Robotics competition increases student interest in STEAM
By MELISSA PROULX
Sunday News Correspondent
WINDHAM - Roughly a dozen people gathered around the plexiglass stadium to watch the fight, with more sitting in the bleachers.
All
were eager to see who would be the reigning champion of the Vex
Robotics Competition Holiday Classic at Pembroke Academy on Saturday.
The
daylong event brought in primarily high school students from all across
New England to compete for the chance to advance to next the round
before going to the state competition in February. Some who have already
qualified still came out to compete.
Educators say competitions
like this are vital in efforts to increase student interest in science,
technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) fields.
- See
more at:
http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20161204/NEWS19/161209771&source=RSS#sthash.ZUhYioXY.dpuf
"Primary school student wins mini robotics competition
Fourteen kids aged six to 15 participated in the Datuk Sebastian Ting
Challenge Cup Mini Robotics Competition held in conjunction with 12th
Miri Trade Fair (Mitraf 12) here on Sunday.
Primary school pupil Jaxon Moh emerged as the champion, while Yong
Vin Cent placed second. Bong Zhen Yong came in third and six-year-old
Sim Zhi Yang in fourth place.
Piasau assemblyman Datuk Sebastian Ting presented prizes to the winners.
Earlier when declaring the competition open, Ting also emphasised on
the important role of parents in a child’s development and how much each
child should value the experiences they go through when they are still
young.
“Parents must find time to spend with their children no matter how
busy they are so that the children do not feel left out. Every parent
wants the best for their children and nurturing their kids from young is
vital in the child’s development,” he said.
Praising the event organiser’s efforts, Ting hoped to see this event
held again and able to attract more young innovators from around Miri.
“Going through a competition like this is a very valuable experience
for these kids. Their young minds are very curious and willing to learn
new things and I urge every parent to encourage their children and
support their talent,” he said, adding he was proud to see the
involvement of these young participants.
Ting also said parents should expose their kids to encourage them to
be more creative and innovative as these are the ones that would be the
country’s future innovators.
Participants in this competition made their own mini robots using
Lego Mindstorms within a stipulated time. The judging was based on which
was the stronger mini robot that could pull their opponent’s robot to
the other side.
The challenge cup, which was being held at Mitraf for the first time,
was organised by Quick Smart Tutoring Centre and Robowis, co-organised
by See Hua Marketing (SHM) and sponsored by Sasbadi..."
Getting Started with LEGO Robotics. Anyone who works with kids can do LEGO Robotics, a rich and highly motivating platform for important STEM Learning! (surprisingly affordable, too) This books explains it all!
