Never to young to start?

October 30th, 2007

I volunteer each week at my son’s school, where he’s in a gifted class. Lately, they’ve been working with Lego Mindstorms, as part of a unit on robotics. I’m helping with the “programming” parts. The kids assemble the robot according to the directions, and then we connect them to a Windows machine [...]

Just Comes Natural

August 25th, 2007

As a child, a friend of mine (my Attorney) and I were in the local paper for building a sprawling Lego city across my rumpus room.
This morning, my son continued the legacy, by winning a bring-your-own-Lego(tm) Transformer(tm)-construction competition.
The Asheville Citizen-Times wrote it up nicely.
HENDERSONVILLE – For Noah McWhirter, building Lego figures just comes natural.
“I just [...]