F.U.S.E. Program Summer Workshop Students to Use Their Creativity to Bring LEGOs to Life

Students taking part in the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi College of Science and Technology summer workshop will participate in a LEGO Robot Competition on Monday, June 13 from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Science and Technology Building, Room 214.

The workshop is designed to introduce disadvantaged high school juniors to science and engineering technology job opportunities in the food and agriculture industry.

“LEGO products are so much more now than they used to be.” said Korinne Caruso, graduate project assistant. “They now include gears, motors, sensors and much more.” The project is the ideal hands-on tool which allows students to use the LEGO Mindstorms kit to be engineers by designing, building and programming a robot to complete a task. The RCX is the programmable LEGO brick that transforms models into robots and controls their actions. Students build models and robots using the RCX as the brain. Then use the ROBOLAB software to write a program and download it into to the RCX via the Infrared Tower. After being programmed, the robots are fully autonomous, acting on their own and ready to be judged on creativity and performance.