Lego Club Project

For the past several weeks, the kids in Kyler's Lego club have been working on projects to take to the annual robotics challenge held at Walla Walla University. Kyler's team is made up of four kids, and the other team has three kids. Kyler's team name is the “Tornado Dragons.” Don't ask me how they came up with that name... The other team are the “Hurricane Kids.”

The Tornado Dragons decided to build a television for their project. There are a few rules of the challenge and I'm not sure about all of them. But I do know that the project has to have a motor and moving parts, and it has to have at least one “simple machine.” In the television they have a wheel and axel for their simple machine which rotates the “screen” they built. And it has a motor with gears to turn the wheel and axel.

They have two more weeks to finalize the project before the challenge which is held on April 14. But the Lego club meeting on the 21^st was the last time I will see the project since we are leaving the state for Caden's surgery.

Here are a couple pictures of the television with Kyler. Each of the kids got to create a “TV show” for each “channel.” As the screen rotates, it goes to a different channel. One student's channel is the news. Another made the weather channel. One other child depicted a martial arts show. And Kyler made a show about law enforcement. 

Also, as part of their project, the kids added a couch, coffee table, and chairs to have in front of the television. It is pretty cute. I will have to get pictures from my mother-in-law after the robotics challenge to see how the final project turned out. Good luck Tornado Dragons!