First LEGO League students explore future of learning

    What is the future of learning? That is what more than 35 Grundy Center fifth- through eighth-grade students aim to find out with their challenge in the 2014 First Lego League.
    Thirty-eight students on four teams, three sponsored by the school and one by the Grundy Family YMCA, will embark on their challenge Dec. 13 at Marshalltown Community College.
    Secondary TAG instructor Rob Gingery said First Lego League (FLL) allows students to think in ways that almost no other program at the school does.
    “The computer programming and the building part of the engineering components are some of the most advanced thinking that the kids do here at school during the day,” he said. “It’s definitely not easy - a lot of the kids get frustrated because it is very, very hard and challenging, but that’s part of what I want it to be is challenging.”

For more of this story see the Nov. 27 Grundy Register.