The Garfield Middle School Brick Builders Club had its first meeting this month. This Lego Brick Builders Club is designed for students to share their creativity and develop three areas Social, School, and Civic Pride.
We are currently looking for donations of any new or used Lego bricks to help with group projects and some financially affected students.
We are planning many fun activities which include: building a minature replica of Garfield Middle School and many Lakewood Landmarks out of Lego Bricks. In the future we hope to work with the community to model a Lego Lakewood Downtown, Fantasy Lakewood (what if...) and a Imagine Lakewood the Lakewood of the Future.
If you have Legos to donate, would like to help, are involved in a civic organization that would like to partner, or start a club at your school contact me at colleen@thewingfamily.org or PM Look for an article in the LO to come.
Happy Building!
Building Lakewood...Brick by Lego Brick
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This is a great idea/concept. I will start digging through the past for Legos to donate.
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Can they be any size legos?
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Hi guys---
Colleen, what a great idea! From what I've seen so far, Lakewood is "Lego City" or maybe "Legowood". The Lakewood Observer has been developing a Kid's Page and we already have a couple of submissions from kids who have built Lakewood buildings out of legos-- I wonder if they can carry the message about the idea of having clubs back to their schools?
I showed your post to my son and he's all excited about putting something together at Grant, I will email you about that.
I wanted to let you know that the Kid's Page would be the perfect place to submit news about the new club at Garfield, and of course pictures.. and of course, HAVE THE KIDS WRITE THEIR OWN STORIES AND TAKE THEIR OWN PICTURES. Or if somebody is working on a huge design, they can post drawings, "blueprints" also. Especially if they need help building, or more bricks.
We went to the "Plastic Brick Museum" in Bellaire, Ohio, they were building the tallest Lego Building in the world, to beat the last one in the Guinness Book of World Records, and they had tables set out so all visitors to the Museum could build a piece of the building and have it added to the structure, so everyone could be part of creating the next World Record. Every person there was busily at work, and we were all co-creators. It was really fun for everybody there, even my five year old, even the grown ups. I'm so glad you're doing this!
Some of the kids who write for the Kids page were talking about a contest to represent buildings in Lakewood--- it might be a great way to spread the word. If it gets big enough, maybe we can make a part of the Kid's Page into "Legowood" (is that lame? I guess I have to ask the kids.)
One more plug for anyone reading this--- you know the Lakewood Observer, the newspaper on paper (and online) , as well as the Deck, are completely community-written, which means anybody who is talking about red-hot topics, like David Anderson talking about ways to keep our housing stock strong-- could actually write that up for the paper itself! and share it with the rest of the city that might not be as computer literate as the Deck people are. I know that's thread-bleed, but my point is, if you have KIDS, please tell them to WRITE FOR THE KIDS PAGE. I should probably create a thread for that too.
The Lakewood Observer Kid's Page has upcoming stories about fencing in Lakewood, and how fun and competitive it is, stories about grandparents being veterans and what they have taught their grandchildren, what bullying is about from a middle schoolers point of view, how great the basketball courts at Kauffman Park are, from a teen player's point of view, stories about visiting Washington D.C, and pictures, a story about different belt levels in Karate, and from what I hear-- a comic strip may be coming. A comic strip with Lego characters! Legowood! Okay, maybe I've had too much coffee.
Anyway, if you come here to read or write for the Deck, please spread the word. Anybody reading Colleen's Lego thread probably knows some kids, and if they like Legos, they are probably creative and would love to share their ideas with the other kids in Lakewood. It's really easy, they go to lakewoodobserver.com, and sign up in the Member Center (or their parents do.) They can write thier stories right there, or cut and paste it from a word processing program, and attach pictures. It works pretty much just like the Deck. It's easy and from there it goes straight to the paper.
Thanks a lot, and Colleen, thank you.
Betsy Voinovich
P.S. Justine, are you talking about those huge lego bricks for toddlers? (We just gave them to Goodwill, finally! They took up a lot of space.) and the middle sized ones for little kids? We call those the "Dora Legos" in our house. Or do you just mean all the different weird sizes and shapes?
Colleen, what a great idea! From what I've seen so far, Lakewood is "Lego City" or maybe "Legowood". The Lakewood Observer has been developing a Kid's Page and we already have a couple of submissions from kids who have built Lakewood buildings out of legos-- I wonder if they can carry the message about the idea of having clubs back to their schools?
I showed your post to my son and he's all excited about putting something together at Grant, I will email you about that.
I wanted to let you know that the Kid's Page would be the perfect place to submit news about the new club at Garfield, and of course pictures.. and of course, HAVE THE KIDS WRITE THEIR OWN STORIES AND TAKE THEIR OWN PICTURES. Or if somebody is working on a huge design, they can post drawings, "blueprints" also. Especially if they need help building, or more bricks.
We went to the "Plastic Brick Museum" in Bellaire, Ohio, they were building the tallest Lego Building in the world, to beat the last one in the Guinness Book of World Records, and they had tables set out so all visitors to the Museum could build a piece of the building and have it added to the structure, so everyone could be part of creating the next World Record. Every person there was busily at work, and we were all co-creators. It was really fun for everybody there, even my five year old, even the grown ups. I'm so glad you're doing this!
Some of the kids who write for the Kids page were talking about a contest to represent buildings in Lakewood--- it might be a great way to spread the word. If it gets big enough, maybe we can make a part of the Kid's Page into "Legowood" (is that lame? I guess I have to ask the kids.)
One more plug for anyone reading this--- you know the Lakewood Observer, the newspaper on paper (and online) , as well as the Deck, are completely community-written, which means anybody who is talking about red-hot topics, like David Anderson talking about ways to keep our housing stock strong-- could actually write that up for the paper itself! and share it with the rest of the city that might not be as computer literate as the Deck people are. I know that's thread-bleed, but my point is, if you have KIDS, please tell them to WRITE FOR THE KIDS PAGE. I should probably create a thread for that too.
The Lakewood Observer Kid's Page has upcoming stories about fencing in Lakewood, and how fun and competitive it is, stories about grandparents being veterans and what they have taught their grandchildren, what bullying is about from a middle schoolers point of view, how great the basketball courts at Kauffman Park are, from a teen player's point of view, stories about visiting Washington D.C, and pictures, a story about different belt levels in Karate, and from what I hear-- a comic strip may be coming. A comic strip with Lego characters! Legowood! Okay, maybe I've had too much coffee.
Anyway, if you come here to read or write for the Deck, please spread the word. Anybody reading Colleen's Lego thread probably knows some kids, and if they like Legos, they are probably creative and would love to share their ideas with the other kids in Lakewood. It's really easy, they go to lakewoodobserver.com, and sign up in the Member Center (or their parents do.) They can write thier stories right there, or cut and paste it from a word processing program, and attach pictures. It works pretty much just like the Deck. It's easy and from there it goes straight to the paper.
Thanks a lot, and Colleen, thank you.
Betsy Voinovich
P.S. Justine, are you talking about those huge lego bricks for toddlers? (We just gave them to Goodwill, finally! They took up a lot of space.) and the middle sized ones for little kids? We call those the "Dora Legos" in our house. Or do you just mean all the different weird sizes and shapes?