LEGO Smart Creativity Contest 2011

The LEGO^® Smart Creativity Contest is all about creativity, innovation, and hands-on learning! We want you to think beyond the books and focus on the power of the brick!

In 150 seconds or less, we challenge you to:

Show us how you use

LEGO Education solutions

to spark student innovation!

Whether you capture student innovation in the form of a LEGO-inspired animation, student-produced skit, or by performing an original song that plays tribute to the creativity of the LEGO brick, we challenge you to be creative and let that innovative spirit shine! Big prizes!

Click on the logo to visit the official homepage.

Moonbots 2.0

Last week, The LEGO® Group and The X Prize Foundation announced the second Moonbots contest: Moonbots 2.0, A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge.



Free registration and Phase One of the contest will be open from May 9th through June 13.

robot contest at Sioux

Now this is the software firm you'd like to work for!
They, have a policy that you need to spend some extra time in learning new things, and this can be anything, so on Saturday 29 January they held a nice MINDSTORMS competition.
The gameboard was completely made out of LEGO (mainly 2x4 bricks)


And the rules were simple, move some balls to the right location.



(all the participants and robots)

Xander made a nice post on his blog.

Hack Club: MINDSTORMS Showdown

The Hack-Club has a new contest!.

No business cards.
No recruiters.
No spoon.

Hack Club Round 1: LEGO Mindstorm Showdown


LEGO provides the Mindstorms, we provide the battlefield and the rules, and you provide the robots that do the special challenge better than every other robot there.

Date: January 14th-15th, 2011 New York City

Doors open: at 9 PM

Competition starts: at 10 PM on 01/14/11

Competition ends: at 9 AM on 01/15/11

Location: Solve this puzzle for the location of the event!

Once you solve it, please email me (christina@) to check your answer and RSVP so we can get a rough head count!

read more
I robot, LAWs

Read the rules and good luck!

PS please do not post the solution here.

NXT 2.0 Discovery Book - Give away contest - closed

As you might know, the submission deadline for the NXT 2.0 Discovery Book give away contest is over. To everyone who made a submission, thanks for participating!

I am currently going through the submissions to select the winners. If you have contributed and if you are a winner, you will be contacted via email soon.

Give away contest - Update

Several contestants have already made their submission, but if you too want to qualify for a free copy of the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book, or LEGO prizes, be sure to make your submission in time! The current deadline is October 31.

The objective:
Find YouTube videos that are related to The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book.

Go here to read more about the contest, its prizes and the rules.

Hint: As you can see using the link above, there are 8 prizes that you can win. So, if you want to win a prize, you should really submit more than 8 links ;). It's not difficult (there are more than 8 videos of the Snatcher alone). Just search smart!

NXT 2.0 Discovery Book - Give away contest

The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book has been out for a few months, and many people around the globe have already got their hands on a copy. Do you have a copy yet?

To spark your MINDSTORMS enthusiasm, I am happy to announce the start of a book contest, with prizes!

The Goal

Find YouTube videos that are related to 'The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book'.

For example, find videos that show one or more of the book's robots in action, or find video book reviews. Make a list of links to as many appropriate videos that you can find, and submit them as follows. The contestant who sends in most links wins the contest.

The Prizes

The three best submissions by contestants who already have the book will receive one of the following prizes:

• 1st prize: Custom 'Power Functions' pack including:
  • PF battery box
  • PF LED lights
  • 2 Medium PF motors
  • 2 Linear Actuators
• 2nd prize:
  • MINDSTORMS NXT Sound Sensor
• 3rd prize:
  • MINDSTORMS NXT Light Sensor

The five best submissions by contestants who do not yet have the book will each receive:

• One free copy of 'The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book'.

Rules and more information:

You can find information about the rules and how to take part on the
book's companion website.

Winners of MoonBots contest announced

Remember the MoonBots contest LEGO ® was hosting together with Google?

The contest is finished now and the winners have been announced, with the Landroids having made the first place.

Congratulations to all teams!


Do not miss to to read the funny "Special recognition awards" on the page and to watch the videos on the teams' web sites. :)

RobotChallenge 2010 in Vienna

On 20th and 21st of March, in Vienna the RobotChallenge 2010 will take place, Europe's biggest robotics contest.
Form a press release of the hosts:

"Participants from all over the world will compete against each other with self-made, autonomous robots. As a novelty this year, the European Robot Sumo Championship will coincide with the RobotChallenge 2010; celebrating its premiere in Vienna.
On March 20 and 21, 2010, the Vienna science auditorium will transform into a setting of one of the biggest robotic competitions worldwide. Participants aged 12 - 60 years will compete with their robots in eleven disciplines on 2,000 square metres. The Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Science (InnoC), in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Science, expects more than over 200 robots from all over the world. "During the last few years the RobotChallenge has established itself as an international event in the area of robotics. "Participants arrive from over 15 countries every year," says Roland Stelzer, organiser.
The RobotChallenge 2010 consists of eleven disciplines, offering suitable contests for beginners as well as for experienced robot designers. Aside from the traditional contests Line Follower, Line Follower Enhanced and Puck Collect, so-called humanoid robots - modelled after the human form - compete in two disciplines.
This year, the European Robot Sumo Championship will be held together with RobotChallenge and European Championships will be awarded for six Robot Sumo weight classes for the first time. As in the traditional Japanese martial arts, the robots try to push the competitor off the ring.
Extraordinary and particularly original robots can be admired in the Freestyle Exhibition. Considering the creative diversity displayed in previous years, numerous oddities in the world of robots can again be expected this year.
[..]
Aside from the benefit of free admission, the audience can expect a suspenseful and varied show, as well as the odd chance to look over robot designers' shoulders during last minute preparations."

Deadline for free registration of participants is February 28,2010.

Contest on Klocki

Klocki, a nice multilingual LEGO® blog (Klocki is the Polish word for Bricks), is hosting a new contest called Home Improvement: build a device that helps at home.

Entries may be submitted until end of October and there are three attractive LEGO® sets to win.