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The FIRST LEGO League World Festival

FIRST LEGO League World Festival

We're so wishing we were kids these days; Xbox 360 under the Xmas tree, texting friends in class, and abundant robot competitions, like the Dean Kamen founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League World Festival, for example. More than 74 teams of kids between 9 and 14 from the world got together to bust it out LEGO Mindstorms style in the Hot 'lanta Georgia Dome in a winner-takes-all battle to see whose brick-bot could best perform the nine designated tasks. Money quote from one 12-year-old robot trainer: "I wanna either work for NASA or be an actress." Who says they're mutually exclusive? We'll see you at the third FIRST LEGO League World Festival, 'lil lady.