{"id":701,"date":"2007-09-10T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T02:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-09-10T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T02:41:32","slug":"legos-have-gotten-way-to-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2007\/09\/10\/legos-have-gotten-way-to-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Legos have gotten way to cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the opening meeting of GeekBoy&#8217;s Lego League.\u00a0 Now that we have the challenge in hand, lets get to rolling!\u00a0\u00a0 The boys came over, and for about an hour, the kids just ran crazy and had a blast playing games and what not back in GeekBoy&#8217;s room while the moms enjoyed a bit of adult conversation for a change.<\/p>\n<p>Then we discussed the challenge, and really&#8230;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what we were expecting, but this doesn&#8217;t seem to be it. \u00a0 We pretty much decided to just let the boys build things with the kit instead of worry about doing the challenge.\u00a0 Especially since the challenge is kind of baffling to me.\u00a0 The boys are supposed to look around the room, pick a source of energy, do research about it,\u00a0 and then build a model, using at least one simple machine and a moving part, that shows how the energy is generated.\u00a0 Huh? I don&#8217;t get it.\u00a0 Whatever, GeekBoy and a friend put together a sail car, which the other mom pointed out was powered by wind energy.\u00a0 The third boy put together a car also.\u00a0 Then everyone went home, and I crashed.\u00a0 Hard.<\/p>\n<p>But after I woke up,\u00a0 GeekBoy wanted to test out the motor, so we put something together, and tried it out, and it worked pretty kuel.\u00a0 All three of the kids are revved up, so excited to meet up with their new friends and play more legos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the opening meeting of GeekBoy&#8217;s Lego League.\u00a0 Now that we have the challenge in hand, lets get to rolling!\u00a0\u00a0 The boys came over, and for about an hour, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capt740","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}