Wednescaay January 28, 1999 - Nonh Shore News ~ 24

@ Hands-on entertainment at Lego EX

Deana Lancaster

News Reporter
deana@nsnews.com

SOMEONE’S been
having a Jot fun with
Lego at Science World
recently.

The clicking, snapping.
locking blocks first designed tw
a Danish carpenter in 1949 are
filling up a Special Exhibitions
gallery at the geadesic dome
on False Creek in Vancouver.

Invention Adventure
tures hands-on displ
including a simulated carth-
quake, where you can con-

struct a building, bridge or
tower and see haw well w will
stand up in the “Big On
Another starion challenges
Participants to create a car,

then race it against these of

other participants down 2
speedway, The cars are pow:
cred by gravity, but some
designs area Hinde mote expe:
ditious than others (hint: cars
that had a variety of tire sizes
and shapes did ger seem to do
welli.

Other exhibits feature
robots which can be pro-
grammed and others navigated
by voice command.

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Bur perhaps: most: impres-
sive is the number and design
of the Lege blocks on display:
the CN ‘Power, the Empire
State Building and other
“tallest” buildings: the Statue
of Liberty, cut away to show
the double-helix structural
design: and neo robots, one a
tew feet tall, and the other, a
wiant.
tke dominates the room
front its position in the corner.

The exhibition ix sure to
inspire future engineers and
designers. Ino fact. it’s spon-
sored by the Professional
Engineers and Geese '
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For more information call
268-6363) or visit’ Sci
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