lego – devizine.com

Calling all future Lego engineers! Be the Brunel of tomorrow and build a bridge to help achieve net zero…..

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Great Western Brick Show at STEAM at the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, the organisers are inviting local schools to take part in their Brick-building challenge to help fight climate change.

The Great Western Brick Show runs Saturday 5th October and Sunday 6th October. You can get a ticket here.

Or, schools or Lego groups can enter this fun competition for a chance to display your team’s model at this year’s show and be in with a chance to win LEGO prizes for your school. What’s awesome about that? I’ll tell you shall I? Everything!!

The challenge is to design and build the railway bridge of tomorrow to help achieve net zero.

In the same way that Brunel approached the challenges he faced with new solutions, which nobody thought possible, they would like to invite pupils to become creative about today’s challenge.

How can we solve one of the biggest challenges the planet is facing right now? Achieve Net Zero, those brickers ask.

They would like pupils to design a sustainable railway bridge of the future using their imagination to design a model that will deal with this issue.

There are no right answers to building the Lego railway bridge of the future, so pupils can solve the challenge in any way they choose. The more creative and imaginative you are, the better!

The build must consist entirely of LEGO Bricks and can include Duplo and Technic.

As the winning entries will be displayed during the Great Western Brick Show on the 5th and 6th of October, the builds must be stable enough to be transported easily and should require minimal setup.

Entries can be made by individual pupils or teams of up to 3 pupils. Other details are down to the imagination of the builder(s), but they should show creative ways of dealing with the challenge set.

For competition details and a full technical brief, see HERE, and get building!!

Everything is awesome upon hearing that Devizes Library is hoping to start a regular Lego Club, and they are asking folk to donate unwanted Lego to the cause…..

I understand and fully sympathise, it’s a tall order for any Lego fan of any age; parting with Lego is like taking a limb! But I absolutely love this idea and pray it gets off the ground. So, if you’ve got any Lego bricks you can bear to part with, drop them into the main desk at Devizes library on Sheep Street; face it, no matter how the winter nights draw in, you’re never going to build that eighties fire station again. Grit your teeth, and give, even if grudgingly! I’m going to have to seriously think about it….no, not the spaceship, nooooo, Mummmm!

This said, it does seem my Lego licence has expired slightly and I’m now building illegally. You could call the Lego police, but their police station is in bits in a box somewhere…may be I could dig it out!