[TriLUG] Middle School and High School Linux project ideas?

[Christopher L Merrill]

Shawn Hartsock wrote:
> School is just around the corner and I have gotten some excitement
> around Middle School computer and robot club going at my Triangle area
> school... great! now what? Does anyone have some ideas for teaching
> robotics, physics, and related math to middle school kids? I'm already
> aware of http://www.usfirst.org/ and the ACM programming contest (more
> suitable for high schoolers obviously)
> 
> Anybody got other ideas?

Lego Mindstorms.

Combine that with Eclipse and Lejos and you have an IDE for
programming Mindstorms in Java on Linux.



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