Lego We Do 2.0....or "Lego We Did After 3 Attempts"!

Another set of Robots we worked with were the Lego We Do 2.0 Core Sets.    Again, I am not being compensated to write about these, nor do I have any in my library.  But I do know that children young and old, are fascinated with anything that has the word "lego(s)" attached! These are the most recent offering from the Lego people.  They differ from the 1.0 version in that they have added many online educational modules for the students to interact with while building their robots, and they also work off Bluetooth.

The software to code these robots is available as a free download.  It was fairly easy to use, although not necessarily as intuitive as I would have hoped.  The modules available online to create each robot, however, were easy to follow and we built our robots with ease.  I had two takeaways from this experience:  

1.  The process for the initial building of these robots lacks creativity from the onset.  Not     that the robots can't be modified, but building from the beginning is something most young children will easily be able to do.

2.  The kits themselves are fairly expensive and we found the bluetooth to be finicky, as shown in the video above.  It seemed that some computers were able to launch the bluetooth more easily than others.  

While I would still love to have these available in my library, my first purchase would still be the Hummingbird Robotics kits because of their integration of the Arts and Electricity, combined with block coding.