{"id":579,"date":"2010-11-09T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/todays-play-propels-tomorrows-innovation-1"},"modified":"2010-11-09T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T15:56:51","slug":"todays-play-propels-tomorrows-innovation-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/11\/todays-play-propels-tomorrows-innovation-1.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks releases new LEGO and robotics student tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do engineers love being engineers? It\u2019s sort of like playing with LEGO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>s. Take some parts and build something wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, most engineers start with \u201ckids\u2019 stuff\u201d like LEGOs,  Tinkertoys, Erector Sets. Fun with toys can propel young people toward  fantastic careers, and make <em>relevant<\/em> the valuable study of science, technology engineering and math.<\/p>\n<p>Building even the simplest creation from scratch introduces kids to  principles of geometry and physics in action. In high school and  college, when geometry and physics can make or break a project \u2013 whether  it\u2019s a LEGO car, robot, or autonomous undersea vehicle for competition \u2013  suddenly math and science are more than problems on a page, they\u2019re the  pivotal factors in the success of the effort. Engineers rely on this  kind of thinking every day.<\/p>\n<p>To help inspire young people this way, yesterday we introduced two new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/education\/robotics-engineering-programs.htm?PID=106\">free tutorial programs for creating LEGO cars and sophisticated robots<\/a> with SolidWorks<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> software. The tutorials include a dozen lessons, videos, and part  models for download. Projects range from elementary through college  level, with straightforward instructions supporting those without prior  SolidWorks experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20133f5b569a3970b.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"White House Science Fair\" border=\"0\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20133f5b569a3970b-800wi.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"White House Science Fair\" width=\"267\" \/><\/a> Marie Planchard, SolidWorks&#39; Director of Education Marketing, recently returned from Washington, DC, where she saw young people engaged with this kind of constructive play at the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usasciencefestival.org\/\">USA Science and Engineering Festival<\/a> on the National Mall. She blogged about her experiences <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/10\/usa-science-and-engineering-festival.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/10\/usa-science-and-engineering-festival-day-2.html\">here<\/a> and offered some comments in this festival highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/fwd4.me\/jvX\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As president Obama said at the preceding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/robots-solar-cars-and-rockets-white-house-science-fair\">White House Science Fair<\/a>,  \u201cIt\u2019s in these pursuits that talents are discovered and passions are  lit, and the future scientists, engineers, inventors, and entrepreneurs  are born.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do engineers love being engineers? It\u2019s sort of like playing with LEGO\u00aes. Take some parts and build something wonderful. In fact, most engineers start with \u201ckids\u2019 stuff\u201d like LEGOs, Tinkertoys, Erector Sets. Fun with toys can propel young people<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/11\/todays-play-propels-tomorrows-innovation-1.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}