much more than meets the eye. While we use them in grades 3-8, the same components are used at the college level and for PHD robotics classes as well. URI has offered a robotics class this semester using the RCX kit that we use at the Jamestown school. One of the many benefits of using the lego products is that you can get a complete robotic experience without having to use a welding shop and all the other requirements to create the components.

Many have watched RoboWars on TV. The RoboWars machines are remote control. Our autonomous robots have a program loaded into them and they run autonomously!

At last year�s Robotics Park, one fifth grade class put on a marionette show. The marionettes were built of lego pieces and were manipulated by robots. The robots were located above the stage. They used various mechanical pieces and gears, which were attached to the strings that manipulated the marionettes. The production was a combination of math, science, and the arts. It was amazingly well done!