<p>In my son’s Engineering 101 class this past year (required of all freshman), a major team project was assigned using Legos Mindstorm. He was thrilled that he already had experience with the first generation of Mindstorms (and we sent him his old programming books); and his team had the highest score/grade of all the Freshmen classes. Don’t ever take away those analytical yet creative outlets…you never know where the next generation of engineers will come from.</p>
<p>We still have our legos. They get brought out every time either S has friends come over. Mind candy for smart kids!</p>