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the link below and build yourself a beautiful website so I was interested to

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see that the LEGO Group has a booth here at pepcom at CES 2016 they're showing

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off something called we do 2.0 it's a very simple Robotics and programming kit

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for kids aged 7 to 10 years old the kit is $159 and comes with 280 pieces

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including a single medium motor a programmable bluetooth smart hub

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controller which also houses the batteries I think and a tilt and a

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motion sensor you can connect two sensors to the Smart Hub or you can

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connect one motor and One sensor there's also an educational pack of 24 kits plus

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a curriculum for $2,260 is that worthwhile I have no idea

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now the marketing material for this kit seems a little over the top it's talking

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about an Innovative way for students to model reality and conduct investigations

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and how a kid can explore rainforests and discover Mars but of course that's

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really just the theme of the various builds that they've given instructions

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for there's a frog there's a Mars Rover a rescue helicopter an earthquake

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machine that one's my favorite and a few others what makes the kit interesting is

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the ability to visually program a simple robot using desktop and tablet-based

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software the software also gives you choices between guided exercises or more

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independent problem solving now again this kid is aimed at 7 to 10 year olds

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or second to four fourth graders so it's not nearly as complex as the well-known

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LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits which are designed for ages 10 and up and because

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the kit is so simple and it's directed at kids so young it's pretty tough for

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me to objectively evaluate just how good of an educational learning tool it might

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be for example I was expecting to see two Motors included in this kit instead

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of one but the LEGO Group probably has a

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lot of good reasons for Designing the kit the way that they did and if you

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want more Motors and more complexity and and more of a challenge you can always

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just get mind storms or power functions or something like that overall the Lego

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weo 2.0 kit looks pretty promising and

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I'm hoping to do a full more in-depth review of it on our channel in the

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future thanks for checking out our coverage of CES 2016 get subscribed if

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