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Article: Students Use LEGO NXT Robots, Sensors to Solve Real-World Problems.(Lego Systems Inc.)
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- September 1, 2009
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By Jennifer Roy, Contributing Editor
The First LEGO League Competition also teaches teamwork, camaraderie and professionalism
The future great engineering minds are still only in elementary school, but they are already learning some basic programming skills to come up with ways to combat climate change and other environmental issues impacting the planet.
The Insta-gators of Gattis Elementary School in Austin, Texas -- a team of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders, all with different academic abilities -- used LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT to build a robot named Murphy, and beat out teenagers in the recent qualifying round of the local First LEGO League ...