Team Members: Anant Vasudevan, Tom James

Object: Legos

Courtesy: http://www.brickartist.com/gallery/NewOrleans6-6.jpg

Rough Layout

- History of the Legos

• discuss the founding of the corporation and reasons for creating Legos
• talk about connections to Knex and Erector sets

- Engineering Aspects of Legos

• how are Legos physically made (i.e. injection molding, mass production issues)
• what are the limitations of legos (i.e. what shapes do they come in, what forces can they sustain, what temperatures can they withstand, what lubricants tend to work best with Legos

- Uses of Legos

• toys for young children
• prototyping
• art

- Effect of Legos on people in society

• does giving young children Legos engender a certain skill set (i.e. spatial skills, reasoning skills)
• does the use of Legos alter/accelerate cognitive development
• do Lego prototypes actually provide valuable force information
• how do Legos reflect current events (i.e. space Legos in the 1970s)?

Sources:

1.) http://www.nathanbrickartist.com/

2.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legos

3.) http://www.klee.ac/en/lsp/science_en_020730.pdf

4.) http://www.lego.com/en-US/default.aspx