Lego Mindstorms Camp or Heaven for Little Boys

If you have boys, then you most likely have Legos. Not that girls don’t play with them, too, of course. I have fond memories of the Lego Castle I had when I was a little girl. But boys and Legos just seem to go hand in hand, don’t they? All I know is that approximately 1599 of our 1600 square foot house is covered in Legos. So when a fellow homeschooling mom tipped me off about a FREE Lego camp being offered at one of the local libraries, I dropped everything to be on my computer at exactly one minute after registration opened to get my oldest signed up.

Okay, I didn’t exactly drop everything, since registration was in the morning and I was on my computer anyway
checking Facebookdoing important things. But still.
The week-long camp was called Robotronics and gave kids a chance to work with Lego Mindstorms. If you aren’t familiar with Mindstorms,  here’s the description from the Lego Education site:

“This set allows students to build and program real-life robotic solutions. Provides cross-curricular opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math. Allows for creativity in design.  Enables students to explore the world of engineering by building complex control systems.”

Basically, Mindstorms are Legos that can be built into all kinds of robots and then programmed using the computer and software, to do any number of things.
Sounds good, right?

Except for the part where the set costs almost $300 (yikes).