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

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

Cary Community center has a course that meets once a week to help teams enter the contest. I'm signing up with my boys on Aug 11. Cary residents can sign up now. We have to wait because even though we can easily walk to the Community Center - we are *not* in Cary.

Jon Carnes
(an Apex-er)

---- Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote: 
> 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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