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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an engineer, and I hate the buzzword. I also hate the belief that you can "inspire a passion" for "STEM" by having kids build with LEGOs, or some other such nonsense. [/quote]

What a passionless engineer you must be if you can’t see the beauty of building and inspiring with Legos.
Just this month alone in my son’s STEM LEGO engineering class he 
1. LEGO Egg Challenge- built a lego box then proceeded to drop an egg in the box filled with different materials from the top of a ladder to see which egg would survive the fall.  The ones he thought would survive didn’t, and the ones he didn’t think would survive did. 
2. Built a Lego Beam Bridge- his bridge was able to support 101lbs including his body weight.
3. Built a skyscraper - the base had to be built so it could withstand the weight and height of the legos - most fun was knocking it to the ground.
4. Built a functional treehouse of Lego’s 
5. Building an urban LEGO  city - must design using function / form , facades, roads, trees, etc etc etc

Child learn through play, and a lego today is a circuit tomorrow and so forth!
Thank goodness there are teachers who believe in Lego’s cause my boy is having the best time learning through play.[/quote]

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