{"id":8822,"date":"2014-07-12T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local?p=8822&preview_id=8822"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T06:15:20","slug":"dr-e-wedo-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/dr-e-wedo-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr E’s WeDo Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr E’s WeDo Challenges: Kitchen Helper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cMake a device to help with some kitchen task\u2013a pancake flipper, a salt shaker, or whatever you can imagine. Your device must include a motor or a sensor (or better yet, both!)\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/div>So began the April challenge on the Dr E’s WeDo Challenge<\/a> website. Participants had one month to design, build, and program their kitchen helpers.<\/p>\n
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The creators of Super Kitchen, from Spain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Forty-three groups from all over the world shared videos and photos of their creations on the site. Participants ranged in age from four to thirteen.<\/p>\n

<\/div>Based on their entries, the kitchen of the future will be a pretty exciting place! Ideas ranged from a bacon thrower<\/a> to an automatic egg cooker<\/a> to an electric cutting board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the end of the month, everyone had a chance to vote for their favorite Kitchen Helper. The winner was RoboWisk<\/a>, created by five- and seven-year-old siblings from Italy.<\/p>\n

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Dr E’s WeDo Challenges are the brainchild of Ethan Danahy<\/a>, a professor at Tufts University. They are one of a series of challenges that Professor Danehy has launched to encourage open-ended problem solving, creativity, and communication in children.<\/p>\n

This past year featured eight WeDo challenges: WeDo World Cup<\/a>, Monsters<\/a>, Mountain<\/a>, Celebration<\/a>, Insectarium<\/a>, Cotton Ball Launcher<\/a>,\u00a0Kitchen Helper<\/a>, and Half Minute Movie<\/a>. In September, Dr E’s WeDo Challenges<\/a> will be back with a new set of challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  \u201cMake a device to help with some kitchen task\u2013a pancake flipper, a salt shaker, or whatever you can imagine. Your device must include a motor or a sensor (or better yet, both!)\u201d So began the April challenge on the Dr E’s WeDo Challenge website. Participants had one month to design, build, and program their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}